One Summer: America, 1927

396
    Atherton, Gertrude, Crystal Cup 426
    Atlanta, Georgia 303–4, 443
    Atlantic City, New Jersey 239
    Atlantic Limited Railroad 382
    Atlantic Monthly 72, 319
    Atlantic Ocean
    Alcock and Whitten fly across 14–15
    Byrd’s flight across 202–7, 225
    Chamberlin’s flight across 155–6, 157–60
    Levine plans another flight 342
    Lindbergh’s flight 48–9, 57–62, 76–8, 83–7, 91, 103–6, 110, 111–14, 154, 203, 289
    Orteig Prize 16–32, 80, 93, 158, 177, 179–80, 202
    plans for commercial transatlantic flights 335–7
    Schlee and Brock cross 346
    transatlantic telephone line 117
    Australia 269
    Austria 69–70
    authors 418–27
    aviation
    airships (dirigibles) 80, 117, 166, 200
    in America 53–6
    Atlantic crossings 14–32, 48–9, 57–62
    barnstorming 56
    Byrd’s flight to North Pole 200–2, 481
    Byrd’s transatlantic flight 199–207, 225
    Dole Pacific Race 343–4
    Lindbergh’s American tour 387–8
    Lindbergh’s Atlantic crossing 48–9, 57–62, 76–8, 83–7, 91, 103–6, 110, 111–14, 154, 203, 289
    Lindbergh’s autobiography 252–3
    Pinedo’s flights 154–5
    plans for commercial transatlantic flights 335–7
    Redfern’s flight to Rio de Janeiro 344–5
    round-the-world attempts 346–7
    runways on ships 336–7
    significance of Lindbergh’s flight 464–5, 470–1
    skyscraper aerodromes 81
    world endurance record 10–11, 20, 57
    First World War 11–13
    seaplanes 23
    Avrich, Paul 315
    Saccho and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background 375–6
    Azores 93, 154
     
    Babe Comes Home (film) 153, 154, 178, 379
    Baghdad 493
    Baird, John Logie 406, 407–9
    Baker, John Franklin 141
    Baker Bowl, Philadelphia 135, 137
    Balbo, Italo 493
    Balchen, Bernt 85, 86, 105, 199–205, 207, 290, 472, 481
    Baldinger, Ora 212
    Baltimore 55, 123–6, 370
    Baltimore Orioles 124, 126–7
    Baltimore Terrapins 127
    Bank of England 224, 227, 228
    Bankers’ Trust Company 226
    banking
    Federal Reserve Banks 234–5
    gold standard 235–6
    Great Market Bubble (1928) 237
    instalment plans 233–4
    Bánky, Vilma 365
    Banque de France 224, 230–1
    barnstorming 56
    Baron, Rosa 368
    Barrow, Ed 140
    Barry, Dave 452, 453, 454
    Barrymore, Ethel 431
    Barrymore, John 153, 431
    Barton, Bruce 215
    baseball
    in the 1920s 130–9
    antitrust case against Federal League 434–5
    at-bats 130n.
    balls 144–5
    barnstorming matches 483
    black players 496
    Fourth of July game 240–2, 248–9
    importance to Americans 128–9
    players’ earnings 378–9
    radio commentaries 167–8
    road trips 379–81, 384–7
    sportswriters 384–5
    World Series fixed 143, 378, 435–6
    see also individual players and teams
    Baseball Hall of Fame 242
    Basie, Count 192
    Bates, Lindon 69
    Bath, Michigan, school massacre 98–100
    Battling Siki 285
    Beaumont, Texas 170
    beer 187, 444–5
    Belém 271–2
    Belgium 67–9, 70
    Bell, Dr John H. 400
    Bell Telephone Labs, New York 405, 406
    Bellanca, Giuseppe 57–8, 87, 89–90, 160
    Benchley, Robert 223, 318, 322
    Bengough, Benny 245, 246, 384
    Bennett, Eddie 245–6
    Bennett, Floyd 20, 21–2, 199, 200–1, 472–3, 483
    Bent, Silas 45
    Benton Harbor, Illinois 330
    Berardelli, Alessandro 299–300, 316, 319, 368–9, 376
    Berengaria (ocean liner) 231
    Berg, A. Scott 53, 473, 480
    Berger, Victor 434
    Berlin 53, 82, 156, 158–60, 170, 359, 373, 476
    Bertaud, Lloyd 89, 90, 348
    Beverly Hills 349
    Bewick, Moreing and Co. 66–7
    Big Government 250
    bigotry 391–403
    Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles 353
    Binet-Simon test 400–1
    Bingham, Hiram 13
    Bismarck (ocean liner) 231
    Black, Edwin, War Against the Weak 398
    Black Bottom (dance) 82
    blacks
    baseball players 496
    boxing 281
    in Ford Motor Company 261
    Great Migration 250
    racism 312, 391
    riots 303
    Show Boat 430–1
    Blake, Eubie 192
    Blakeley, Willis 271–2, 274
    Blanchard, Lawrence 317
    Blythe, Richard 85, 101
    Bodie, Ping 149
    Boeing 470, 471
    Boer War 227
    Bogart, Humphrey 432
    Boise river 63
    Bolling Field, Washington DC 471
    bombs
    Bath massacre 98–100
    First World War 11–12
    Great Red Scare 302–8
    Michigan school bombed 466
    J. P. Morgan bombed 314–15
    and Sacco-Vanzetti case 317–18, 320, 370, 371, 375, 376, 487
    Boni, Albert 426
    Boni, Charles 426
    Boni & Liveright 426–7
    Book Cadillac Hotel, Detroit 149
    Book-of-the-Month Club 37
    books 37, 418–27, 440–1
    Borah, William 318
    Borglum, Gutzon 325–9, 495
    Borotra, Jean 106, 109, 113
    Boston
    baseball 132, 135–6, 379, 386
    bombs 305
    Elmer Gantry banned in 423
    immigrants