One Summer: America, 1927

Snyder-Gray case 46
    on Ziegfeld Theatre 101
    Newark, New Jersey 161, 162–3
    Newfoundland 30, 31, 106, 111, 120, 154, 189, 348
    Newport, Rhode Island 156
    newspapers
    and Al Capone 445
    baseball scores 131
    in Great Depression 414
    tabloids 38–9, 40–1, 146–7
    see also individual titles
    newsreels 146–7, 154, 196–7
    Newtonville, Massachusetts 306
    Nickel Plate Railroad 333
    Nieuport fighter planes 118–19
    Nilsson, Anna Q. 153, 154
    Nipkow, Paul 406
    Nobel Prizes 423, 426, 473
    Nobile, Umberto 200
    Norman, Sir Montagu 224–5, 226–9, 230–1, 495
    Normandy 481
    Norshore cinema, Chicago 351
    North American Review 115
    North Manchester, Indiana 393
    North Pole, Byrd’s flight over 20, 61, 200–2, 481
    Northampton, Massachusetts 215, 216
    Notre Dame University, South Bend 393
    Nova Scotia 105, 111
    Noville, George 21–2, 200, 203, 206, 290, 481–2
    Nungesser, Captain Charles 86, 110–11, 177, 230, 285, 290
    attempted transatlantic flight 26, 28–31, 62, 104
    marriage 27–8, 174
    memorial to 480–1
    reported missing 30–1, 78, 166
    war injuries 26–7, 37
    Nungesser, Madame 117, 290
    Nuremberg Trials 230, 496
    Nushawg Poultry Farm 168
    Nutt, Clarence 91
     
    Oahu, Hawaii 343
    Oakland, California 343, 344
    Oberholtzer, Madge 393
    ocean liners 231, 336
    see also individual liners
    Ohio 184
    Ohio State University 201
    L’Oiseau Blanc (aircraft) 28–31
    Oklahoma 392
    Okrent, Daniel 492
    Old Glory (aeroplane) 348
    Old Orchard Beach, Maine 337–8, 348
    Olympic Games, Berlin (1936) 476
    O’Neill, Eugene 102–3, 426
    All God’s Chillun 430
    Orciani, Riccardo 310
    Oregon 63, 392
    Orlean, Susan 361
    Orteig, Raymond 16–17, 157–8, 179–80, 194, 463, 495
    Orteig Prize 16–32, 80, 93, 158, 177, 179–80, 202
    Osborn, Henry Fairfield 396
    Oshkosh, Wisconsin 83
    Ottawa 252
    Ouachita river 63
    Oxholm, Einar 274–5
     
    Pacific Ocean 31, 62, 343–4, 347
    Pacino, Al 309
    Packard 319
    Padlocks of 1927 (revue) 193
    Palm Beach, Florida 217–18
    Palma, Joseph 266
    Palmer, A. Mitchell 304–5, 306–8, 315, 376
    Palmisano, Anthony 310
    Pan Am 475
    Panama Canal 53
    Papua New Guinea 269
    Pará 268
    Paraguay 374
    Paramount 354, 365, 494
    Paramount cinema, New York 352
    Paris 170, 290
    air travel 53
    boxing matches 285
    Byrd’s transatlantic flight 204–5, 206–7
    First World War 186
    Lindbergh’s flight 106–7, 110, 112–14, 117–19, 465
    movie set in 350
    Nungesser and Coli’s flight 28
    plane attempts to land on department store roof 13–14
    protests against the Sacco-Vanzetti executions 373–4
    Paris Exhibition (1900) 406
    Paris Press 29
    Parker, Dorothy 222, 318, 357, 418, 424
    Enough Rope 426
    Parmenter, Frederick 299–300, 368–9
    particle accelerators 410
    Paschal, Ben 384
    Paterson, New Jersey 306
    Patriots’ League 440
    Patterson, Cissy 164
    Patterson, Joseph Medill 38–9, 437–8
    Pauly, Thomas H. 420
    Payette river 63
    Payne, Philip A. 348
    Pearl Harbor 479
    Pelzer, Lewis 316
    Pennock, Herb 242, 243–4, 384
    Pennsylvania 288
    Pennsylvania Railroad 239, 240, 382
    Pere Marquette Railway 333
    Perkins, Maxwell 425
    Perskyi, Constantin 406
    Peterkin, Julia 418
    Petit, Louis 31–2
    Philadelphia
    baseball 132, 135, 136, 137, 178, 379
    bombs 305–6, 370
    Federal Reserve Bank 237
    Sesquicentennial Exposition (1926) 288, 397
    workers 171
    Philadelphia Athletics 130, 141, 145, 242, 386, 448
    Philadelphia Phillies 135
    Philco 415
    Phinney, Floyd M. 347
    Physcultopathy 39
    Pinedo, Francesco de 23–6, 28, 78, 92–3, 99, 154–5, 493
    Pipgras, George 241
    Pipp, Edwin 261, 265
    Pipp, Wally 248
    Pittsburgh 136, 171, 305
    Pittsburgh Pirates 137, 462, 485
    Pius XI, Pope 393
    Plane Crazy (animated film) 116–17
    planets, life on 421n.
    Plato 396
    plays 101–3, 109, 427, 428–32
    Plymouth, Massachusetts 309, 311, 316
    Plymouth Notch, Vermont 214
    poisons, in alcohol 181, 182–3, 195
    Poland 159
    Polo Grounds, New York 132, 136, 137, 146, 168, 284, 286
    Ponzi, Charles 368–70, 492
    Poplar Bluff, Missouri 77
    Porter, Katherine Anne 318, 368, 375
    Portland, Maine 337, 338
    Portland, Oregon 339
    Post Office 116, 369
    Pound, Ezra 418, 426
    Prague 53
    President’s Aircraft Board 55
    Pride of Detroit (aeroplane) 347
    Princeton University 398
    Prohibition 83, 94, 140, 181, 436, 440
    agents 183, 189
    alcohol smuggling 189–90
    anti-German sentiment and 187
    in Chicago 444–5
    crime and 189
    denatured alcohol 181, 182–3, 195
    Eighteenth Amendment 187
    end of 331, 492
    effects of 81–2, 181–2,