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The great rush toward Le Bourget produced what was perhaps the ���rst great traf���c jam in history. We are accustomed to this sort of thing nowadays, but ���fty years ago there were barely enough automobiles anywhere in the world to create such a phenomenon. Certainly no one would have believed that there were enough cars in Paris to ���ll the whole four miles of road from the city limits to Le Bourget. The French police���who apparently never even tried to do anything about the traf���c jam, a hopeless task in any case���were not prepared to control the crowd at the air���eld. They seem to have sent only one busload of of���cers to Le Bourget. I have forgotten the size of the police buses of those times, but this may have been somewhere between twenty and forty men to deal with half a million. When reinforcements turned up���a handful of policemen on bicycles���those who saw them arrive laughed. But bicycle police were not a bad idea; only bicycles could thread their way through the stalled cars on the road. The American Embassy had been no more imaginative about what might happen if Lindbergh landed. Two weeks earlier a pair of French ���iers, Charles Nungesser and Fran��ois Coli, had taken off from Paris for, they hoped, New York, crossing the North Atlantic the hard way (its prevailing winds blow west to east), and were never heard from again. Ambassador Myron T. Herrick had cabled to Washington that under the circumstances the American aviators who were preparing to ���y from New York to Paris should postpone their projects, for HYLAND 6