One Summer: America, 1927

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    Veterans’ Bureau 74, 212, 220
    Vickers Vimy aeroplanes 15–16
    Vicksburg, Mississippi 74
    Vidmer, Richards 121, 212, 384–5
    Villa, Pancho 255n.
    Villard, Oswald Garrison 216
    Virginia 403
    Vitaphone 360
    Volstead, Andrew J. 187–8
    Volstead Act (1919) 139, 187–8, 192
     
    Walker, Jimmy, Mayor of New York 92, 428, 482
    castigates Babe Ruth 150
    Dempsey-Sharkey fight 293
    legalises boxing 284
    and Lindbergh’s homecoming 173, 175
    and Prohibition 82
    and the Roxy Fund 481
    and the Sacco-Vanzetti executions 373
    Sherry-Netherland fire 10
    Wall Street
    and Coolidge’s presidency 218–19
    Great Market Bubble (1928) 237
    stock market booms 79, 218–19, 231–4
    Wall Street crash (1929) 224, 466, 488, 489
    Wallace, Dana 45
    Wallace, Henry C. 212
    Waller, Fats 192
    Walter Reed hospital, Washington DC 352
    Wanamaker, Rodman 20, 30, 81, 84–5, 110, 173, 199
    War Office 75
    Ward, Hugh 139–40
    Warner, Jack 361–2
    Warner Brothers 353, 360, 361–2, 364
    Warsaw Airport 159
    Washington, George 328
    Washington DC 52–3, 352
    baseball 132, 379
    bombs 304–6
    Lindbergh’s homecoming 166–7, 168–70
    tornado 92
    Washington Monument 169
    Washington Senators 130, 133–4, 217, 240–2, 248–9, 457, 458, 460
    Washington Square Bookshop, New York 426
    Washington State 303
    Waters, Captain William 27
    WEAF 167–8
    weather
    heatwaves 238–40, 289, 291–2, 462
    hurricanes 280
    rainfall 63–5, 92
    storms 63–4, 76–7
    tornados 77, 92
    Weather Bureau 31, 74
    Weaver, Buck 436
    Weiss, Major Pierre 18
    Weissmuller, Johnny 292
    Wellington, Duke of 148
    Wellman, William 354–6, 357, 494
    Wera, Julie 241, 381
    West, Mae 45
    West Virginia 63
    Western Electric 360
    Western Union 41, 116, 323
    Westinghouse 259, 412, 414
    Weyant, Helen W. 495
    WGN radio station 438
    Wheeler, Harry 114
    Wheeler, Wayne B. 184–5, 188, 195, 330–1
    Wheelerism 185
    whisky, medicinal uses 190
    White, Elise 338
    White Bird (aircraft) 28–31
    White House, Washington DC 53, 71, 164, 221–2, 323–4
    White (L. Q.) Shoe Company 311
    White Star Line 231
    Whitney family 225
    WHN radio 168
    Wickham, Henry 268–9 and n., 272
    Widener, Eleanor 274
    Wilder, Billy 47
    Wilder, Thornton, The Bridge of San Luis Rey 424
    Wilhelm II, Kaiser 187, 433–4
    Willamette river 63
    Willard, Jess 281–3, 284, 286
    Willebrandt, Mabel Walker 93–5, 392, 556
    William Burns Agency 219
    Williams, Bert 391
    Willkie, Wendell 479
    Wilson, Edmund 46
    Wilson, Woodrow 69, 139, 186, 255n., 327
    Wimbledon, tennis 108–9
    wine, Prohibition 191
    Wings (film) 354–6, 357, 358, 494
    Winslow, Thyra Samter 418
    Winterville, Mississippi 64
    Wodehouse, P. G. 252
    The Woman Who Needed Killing (film) 47
    women, fears of moral decline 82–3
    Woods, Doc 148
    Woolf, Virginia 418
    Woolworth Building, New York 171n.
    Wooster, Stanton H. 23, 86
    World (newspaper) 368
    World Series (baseball) 264, 462
    Babe Ruth loses for Yankees 152
    Babe Ruth’s record 129, 141
    ‘Black Sox’ scandal 143, 378, 435
    Hoover booed at 488
    newspapers erect scoreboards 128
    radio broadcasts 167, 168
    Wray, Fay 494
    Wright, Harold Bell 418, 419
    A Son of His Father 418
    The Winning of Barbara Worth 418
    Wright, Orville 198
    Wright Corporation 85, 90
    writers 418–27
    Wynn, Ed 252
    Wyoming 77
     
    Xaverian Brothers 124–5
     
    Yale University 165, 398
    Yankee Stadium, New York 132, 148–9, 240–2
    aerial photos 157
    attendance records 136
    boxing matches 106, 284, 289, 293–4
    Lindbergh’s homecoming 177–9
    Ruppert builds 146
    Yellowstone National Park 374
    Young, Joe 281
    Young, Stark 418
    Youngstown, Ohio 306, 375
     
    Z, lost city of 273, 455
    Zachary, Tom 178, 459–60
    Ziegfeld, Florenz 252, 378, 450
    Ziegfeld Theatre, New York 101, 174, 430
    Zukor, Adolph 47, 356
    Zurich 318
    Zworykin, Vladimir 414–15, 416, 417

About the Author
     
    Bill Bryson ’s bestselling travel books include The Lost Continent , A Walk in the Woods and Notes from a Small Island , which in a national poll was voted the book that best represents Britain. His acclaimed book on the history of science, A Short History of Nearly Everything , won the Royal Society’s Aventis Prize as well as the Descartes Prize, the European Union’s highest literary award. He has written books on language, on Shakespeare, and on his own childhood in the hilarious memoir The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid . His last critically lauded bestseller was At Home: a Short History of Private Life . He was born in the American Midwest,