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     Lindbergh's flight, it has been calculated, spurred as much as $100 million in aviation investments in America.  In the mid-1920's, Boeing, a small manufacturer of airplanes in Seattle, had so little work that it sometimes built furniture just to keep going.  Within a year of Lindbergh's flight it employed a thousand people.  Aviation became to the 1930's what the radio was to the 1920's.
-Bill Bryson, One Summer: America, 1927