One Summer: America, 1927

308
    Lindbergh’s American tour 295–6
    murders 443
    police strike 216, 303
    Sacco-Vanzetti case 318, 319–20
    workers 171
    Boston Braves 485
    Boston Herald 319
    Boston Red Sox 127–8, 129–30, 139–40, 264, 311, 379, 386
    Boutilier, Brother Matthias 125, 126
    Bow, Clara 356–8, 361, 379, 494
    boxing 280–90, 293–5, 412, 449–55
    Brandeis, Louis D. 371, 392, 401
    Brazil
    Fordlandia project 270–5, 455, 486
    French aviators crash 32
    rubber 268, 269
    Brest 203, 204
    Brevoort Hotel, New York 193–4
    breweries 187, 444–5
    Bridgewater, Massachusetts 301, 310, 311
    Britain
    aviation 12, 53
    Lindbergh visits 119–20
    Long Island conference 231
    man arrested for insulting 302–3
    proposed rubber levy 269–70
    protests against Sacco-Vanzetti executions 373
    Second World War 479
    British Honduras 269
    Britton, Elizabeth Ann 221
    Britton, Nan, The President’s Daughter 220–2
    Broadway, New York 101, 109, 303, 427, 428–32, 493
    Brock, William S. ‘Billy’ 346
    Brockton, Massachusetts 301–2
    Broening, William F. 370
    Brokenshire, Norman 168
    Bronte, Emory 343
    Brooklyn 292
    Brooklyn Dodgers 133, 136, 496
    Brooks, John 225
    Once in Golconda 232
    Broun, Heywood 318, 321, 368
    Brown, Arthur Whitten 15–16, 17
    Brown, Wilson 217–18
    Browning, Edward W. ‘Daddy’ 40
    Brugnon, Jacques 106, 109, 113
    Brunswick, Georgia 344
    Brush, Katharine, Young Man of Manhattan 384
    Brussels 53, 68, 119
    Brzozowsky, Leo 292
    Bucharest 53
    Buck, Carrie 399–401, 403
    Buck, Vivian 400
    Buck vs Bell 95, 399–401
    Buckingham Palace, London 119–20
    Buckner, Emory 192, 193–4, 439–40
    Buda, Mario 301, 310, 315
    Buenos Aires 373, 493
    Buffalo, New York State 382, 383
    Bureau of Standards 145
    Burroughs, Edgar Rice 419, 420–2, 423
    Bridge and the Oskaloosa Kid 422
    Lost on Venus 421–2
    Tarzan of the Apes 420–1
    The War Chief 422
    Butler, Pierce 401
    Byrd, Harry 20, 202
    Byrd, Richard Evelyn 225, 294, 445, 466
    America crashes on maiden flight 21–2, 473
    Antarctic expedition 138, 481
    crew 199–200
    on the Dole Pacific Race 344
    early life 200
    flight over North Pole 20, 61, 200–2, 481
    homecoming 293
    on Lindbergh 105
    and Lindbergh’s homecoming 169
    personality 200
    plans transatlantic flight 20–2, 62, 85–6
    and n., 87, 89, 199
    returns to America 290–1
    Skyward 203
    transatlantic flight 111, 202–7, 225, 289, 343
    Byrn, Helmer 305
     
    Cadillac 262
    Caernarvon, Louisiana 75
    Cagney, James 432
    Cain, James M.
    Double Indemnity 47
    The Postman Always Rings Twice 47
    Cajuns 75
    California
    aviation fuel 60
    Dole Pacific Race 343–4
    floods 63
    Prohibition 190, 191, 194
    railways 382
    sterilization laws 403
    Calles, Plutarco 472
    Calloway, Cab 192
    Camp Wood, Texas 56
    Campanelli, Ernesto 24
    Camus, Albert 425
    Canada
    Lindbergh’s visit to 251–2
    plane crashes 291, 472–3
    and Prohibition 189
    Canadian American Airways 346
    Cannadine, David 71–2
    Cantigny, Wheaton, Illinois 437, 438
    Cantor, Eddie 252, 359
    Cap de la Hague 111
    Cape Breton Island 105
    Cape Cod 239
    capital punishment 366–7, 370–3, 486–7
    Capitol cinema, New York 352
    Capone, Al 244, 436, 440, 466
    career in crime 442–6
    charged with tax evasion 93, 95, 491
    and the Dempsey-Tunney fight 450–1
    early life 441–2
    imprisonment 491–2
    press conferences 441
    and Prohibition 182
    scars 443
    summer cottage 99
    Capone, Vincenzo 441
    Cargill 275
    Carmen (opera) 360
    Carnegie family 490
    Carnegie Institution 402
    Carpentier, Georges 26, 285–6, 412
    Carrel, Alexis 398, 473–5, 476, 495–6
    Man the Unknown 474, 475, 496
    Carroll, Earl 72
    cars
    car ownership 79, 262
    Ford Model A 276–8, 330, 463, 485–6
    Ford Model T 256, 257–61, 263, 276, 277–8, 466
    rubber tyres 269–70
    traffic congestion 96–7
    Caruso, Enrico 378
    Cass Technical High School, Detroit 106
    Cassidy, Sergeant William 97
    Cates, Maxine 283
    Catholic Church 124, 306, 392, 393
    Central Park, New York 239–40
    Challé, Lieutenant 18
    Chamberlin, Clarence 207, 294
    and Byrd’s flight 204, 205
    Columbia damaged 22
    early life 156–7
    endurance record 10–11, 19–20, 57, 341
    homecoming 293
    later life 483
    transatlantic flight with Levine 87, 88–9, 90–1, 155–6, 157–60
    on Lindbergh 105
    in Paris 204, 290–1
    takes off from ship 336–7
    Chaplin, Charlie 287, 450
    Chapman, Ray 134–5, 144
    charcoal briquettes 270
    Charett, Marquis de 27
    Charing Cross Ophthalmic Hospital, London 407
    Charlestown Prison 320, 368, 370, 372
    Charlotte, North