Word: milwaukeee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your correspondent in Milwaukee, John Muller, who praised you for not printing Lindbergh's picture on the front cover and who prophesied so blithely that one or more Junkers' planes will come gliding into New York with no fuss or fiddling, must now feel like the blatant tactless...
Sirs: Milwaukee, Wis. JOHN MULLER In my letter praising you for not putting Lindbergh's picture on your cover [TiME, June 3], I said: "Who doubts that the ordinary German commercial aircraft companies could not better Lindbergh's feat with a stock plane?"
Now my prophecy has been fulfilled! For I have just read in TIME that a German Junker's plane has smashed all endurance records by remaining in the air over 52 hours. The best Lindbergh ever did was 33 hours! Therefore it is a foregone conclusion that one or...
Between Aug. 16?31: The Tri Cities-Moline, Davenport and Rock Island; Milwaukee, Madison; Twin Cities-St. Paul and Minneapolis; Little Falls, Fargo, Sioux City, Des Moines, Omaha, Denver.
It was a foregone conclusion that both heroes would receive Distinguished Flying Crosses. They were to present themselves to President Coolidge in South Dakota, visit Milwaukee (Hero Maitland's home) and be told about that city's new Maitland Airport, and visit Dayton, Ohio, scene of their preparations...