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...Into the President's study marched French Ambassador Claudel with two young men, one black-haired, sleek and wiry, the other burlier, rougher of hair, braver of necktie. They were the far-flown Lindberghs of France, Lieutenant Dieudonne* Costes and Lieut.-Commander Joseph Lebrix, just in from Paris via Africa, South America, Mexico, New Orleans and Montgomery, Ala. They had covered 22,843 mi. and, after handshaking and photography on the South Lawn, they soon hopped off again for Manhattan, whence they thought they might fly to San Francisco before going home. Said Flier Lebrix: "We do not want...
...dropped out of the sky and added the keys of the city of New Orleans to their watch chains. Famed flyers, they have finally worked northward to the U. S. From France across the South Atlantic, up through South America, they have been spreading the gospel of French goodwill. Via Pensacola, Fla., they aim for Manhattan. Thence, given good luck, they will complete an immense wandering with a non-stop flight to Paris...
President Machado of Cuba was waiting at the dock to shake the hands of President Coolidge and party. After much bugling, saluting, blowing and picture-taking, the procession started, via O'Reilly street and Teodoro Roosevelt street through a blizzard of rosebuds, under balconies, past cathedrals, to the presidential palace. "A-a-a-h!!" said thousands of appreciative Cubans when the two Presidents appeared on a balcony...
Mexico City. It is just before dawn. People have gathered from the shadows of the night at Valbuena Field; more people than gathered at Roosevelt Field when Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew for Paris; more than gathered at Le Bourget, Paris, when he flew for London, via Brussels...
Travellers to the Orient via the Suez Canal are dazzled by the huge electric billboard which informs at least 200,000 persons yearly that they ought to buy Sir Thomas Lipton...