One Summer: America, 1927

Nungesser and Francois Coli: Mary Evans Picture Library
     
    Bert Acosta, Richard Byrd and other crew of the America : © AP Images; photo courtesy of Photography Collection, Miriam and IraD. Wallach Divison of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
     
    America , in water; Clarence Chamberlin and others with Columbia ; Robert Elliot; Alvin ‘Shipwreck’ Kelly; Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey fight: AP Images
     
    Francesco de Pinedo; Wayne Wheeler; Al Jolson: The Granger Collection, New York
     
    Babe Ruth: Louis Van Oeyen/Western Reserve Historical Society/Getty Images
     
    Mississippi Flood: Courtesy of the Archives & Records Services Division, Mississippi Department of Archives & History
     
    Herbert Hoover and Mississippi Flood children: Clifton R. Adams/National Geographic Stock
     
    Nan Britton and daughter; Sacco and Vanzetti funeral procession: © Everett Collection/Superstock
     
    Calvin Coolidge in cowboy costume: New York Times Co./Archives Photos/Getty Images
     
    Bankers Hjalmar Schacht, Benjamin Strong, Sir Montagu Norman and Charles Rist: Federal Reserve Bank of New York – Curating Section
     
    Selling ‘denatured’ alcohol during Prohibition: FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
     
    Gutzon Borglum in studio: The Library of Congress
     
    Sacco and Vanzetti: New York Daily News Archive/New York Daily News/Getty Images
     
    Clara Bow in Wings : PHOTOFEST
     
    Roxy Theatre: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
     
    Union Station area: Cleveland Union Terminal Collection, Michael Schwartz Library, Cleveland State University
     
    Mabel Willebrandt: © CORBIS
     
    Flappers; Cotton Club: © Underwood & Underwood/Corbis
     
    Kenesaw M. Landis: Chicago History Museum/Archive Photos/Getty Images
     
    David Sarnoff: G. Adams/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images
     
    Henry Ford: Print Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
     
    Fordlandia houses: From the collections of The Henry Ford, Photo ID p.1514.95; Digital Image ID p.1514.95/THF44286
     

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    Abilene, Texas 457
    Academy Awards 353, 356, 361
    Acosta, Bert 87
    and Byrd’s transatlantic flight 89, 199–200, 203, 205, 207
    endurance record 10–11, 19–20, 57, 341
    later life 482
    in Paris 290
    Adams, Franklin Pierce 194
    advertising, on radio 413–14
    Aéro-Club de France 118, 290
    Agriculture Department 75
    Ahamed, Liaquat 237
    Air Commerce Act (1926) 55–6
    air-conditioning 239
    aircraft see aviation
    Aircraft Year Book 54
    airmail 54, 57
    airships (dirigibles) 80, 117, 166, 200
    Albany 383
    Alcatraz 492
    Alclad aluminium 60
    Alcoa 60
    Alcock, Jack 15–16, 17
    alcohol see Prohibition
    Algonquin Round Table 318, 428
    Allen, Frederick Lewis, Only Yesterday 188
    Allen, Hervey 418
    Amazonia, Fordlandia project 270–5, 455, 486
    Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles 353, 357
    America (aeroplane) 19–22, 62, 87, 199, 202–7, 225, 335, 473
    America First 478
    American Dictionary of National Biography 219
    American Eugenics Society 395, 397
    American Heritage 483
    American Jewish Congress 402
    American League (baseball) 127n., 128n., 130, 139, 143–4, 242, 246, 434–5, 449, 461–2
    American Legion (aircraft) 19
    American Marconi 411
    American Mercury (magazine) 37
    American Museum of Natural History, New York 396, 397
    American Relief Administration (ARA) 69
    American Revolution 255
    American Society for the Promotion of Aviation 85
    Amherst College, Massachusetts 215
    Amsterdam 53
    Amundsen, Roald 200
    anarchists 303–8, 310–11, 370, 374–5
    Anderson, Florence 471
    Anderson, Sherwood, Dark Laughter 426
    Ansonia Hotel, New York 377–8
    Antarctica 138, 481–2
    Anti-Saloon League (ASL) 184–5, 187, 330, 331
    anti-Semitism see Jews
    Arctic Ocean 200
    Argentina 288, 318, 374
    Argonauts 17
    Arkansas 63, 77
    Arlen, Michael 428
    Arlen, Richard 355, 356, 357
    Armstrong, Edward R. 335–6
    Armstrong, Edwin H. 415–16
    Armstrong, Louis 192
    Armstrong Seadrome Development Company 336
    Arnold, Benedict 255
    Asbury Park, New Jersey 239
    assembly lines 259–60, 263–4
    Associated Press 109, 291, 345
    Astaire, Fred and Adele 428
    Astor family 225
    AT&T 72, 167, 360, 405, 406
    Atchafalaya River 75
    Athens