Word: lindberghs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After hunting alligators, but getting none, fishing, but catching none, being reported as on the verge of nervous breakdown, but having none, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh went down for a spin in a submarine. Then bidding good-bye to Panama and his vacation, he put on his goggles and returned to work...
...wilderness ranges of the Cordilleras curved the Spirit of St. Louis, first flying ship to risk a passage above the cloudy peaks. As he disembarked, Senorita Olga Noguera Davila, elected queen of local students, joined the tiny group of the world's women who have kissed Col. Lindbergh. Parades. Speeches. By Presidential decree he was presented with the Cross o) Boyaca, highest military award of the Colombian government, tenth ever bestowed...
Again Col. Lindbergh flew where never man has flown before him. Over the jagged barrier of Andes from Bogota he soared upward to the east. Fogs blotted his landmarks. Once dodging beneath the clouds he noticed a pair of antelope and dipped close to the earth to race their frightened flight. Soon he lost his way; sooner again he found it and sank to safety at Maracay, Venezuela. He motored to nearby Caracas, shook hands, gave thanks for fervent reception, listened to Spanish speeches, prepared to hop to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands...
...applause. Latin correspondents sent home many a personal item such as that El Presidente speaks English with a marked, nasal Yankee twang. Many wrote home also the story of how a large, Delegate-filled hotel had hung above its bar pictures of Gerardo Machado, Calvin Coolidge and Charles Augustus Lindbergh. A Cuban policeman saw the pictures, sternly reminded the bartender that the U. S. is dry, rapped out an order. Thereafter the likeness of Col. Lindbergh hung alone...
...slim neck of earth that connects the Western continents two airplanes waited. They were the two most famous active airplanes in the world today, the Spirit of St. Louis and the Nungesser-Coli. They waited while their pilots were shaking hands in Panama. Col. Lindbergh (resting for several days) greeted with the most energetic approval Frenchmen Dieudonne Costes and Joseph Lebrix, first airmen to fly the South Atlantic. (TIME, Oct. 24.) Panama City displayed the triple red white and blues of France, of Panama, of the U. S. Unwearied by the recent outburst of welcome to the northern flyer Panamans...