Word: lindberghs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Porter. New York Central officials deny that there is any distinction between Century sections. There is, they say, no "first," no "last," save as the trains are spaced a block* or two apart on the runs. Nevertheless, should Calvin Coolidge or George V or Charles Augustus Lindbergh signify a desire to travel as a private citizen (i. e. not in a private car) between Chicago and Manhattan, he would undoubtedly be assigned space on the section conducted by Conductor Kennedy or Conductor Hendrix, the section called "first" only for convenience, perhaps, but invariably attended...
...Army during Wartime, barnstorming, stunt flying. Then he got a backer and a superbly designed Wright-Bellanca monoplane. He shattered the endurance record by remaining in the air (with chunky Bert Acosta) for 51 hours. He was ready to conquer the Atlantic long before Captain Charles Augustus Lindbergh came out of the West, but bickerings disturbed his camp...
...amazed the crowd at Roosevelt Field and caused his wife to swoon, when he quietly climbed into the Columbia's cockpit beside Chamberlin and was off for somewhere in Europe. Chamberlin followed Captain Lindbergh's general route from Long Island to Newfoundland and thence across the Atlantic...
Some 340 miles west of Land's End, England, Chamberlin and Levine circled around the Cunarder Mauretaytia, only 80 minutes after the liner had passed the U. S. cruiser Memphis, which was carrying Captain Lindbergh to Washington...
...Chamberlin steered diagonally across the English Channel, Belgium and Holland. At dawn, with the gasoline supply exhausted, Chamberlin made a successful landing at Eisleben, Germany, 110 miles went of Berlin. He had flown 3,905 miles in 42 hours, 32 minutes -exceeding in distance, but not in speed, Captain Lindbergh's non-stop flight of 3,610 miles in 33 hours, 29 minutes...