The example that is cited in my family is the Seaboard Air Line company, whose stock experienced a short surge in popularity in the late 1920s after Lindbergh's

The example that is cited in my family is the Seaboard Air Line company, whose stock experienced a short surge in popularity in the late 1920s after Lindbergh's transatlantic flight. The only problem was that the company was a railroad, first founded in the early 1800s. The "air line" part of its name was a reference to direct route from point A to point B, 'as the crow flies'.