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===Zephyr tributes in advertising, commercial products, and sports=== With Zephyr-mania sweeping the country, tributes turned up in the names of everything from sports teams to commercial products. In 1934, Father Becker, principal of the [[St. Mary Catholic High School (Neenah, Wisconsin)|St. Mary Catholic High School]] in Menasha, Wisconsin, was so inspired by the dawn-to-dusk run that he chose "Zephyrs" as the mascot for the school. In Galesburg, Illinois, which is 162 rail miles from Chicago, the local high school named all its athletic teams the "[[Galesburg High School#Sports|Galesburg Silver Streaks]]" in honor of the train. In 1935, the [[King Musical Instruments|H. N. White Company]] changed the name of its top-line [[saxophones]] to "King Zephyr." [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] introduced the [[Lincoln-Zephyr]] with the 1936 model year. [[Northwest Airlines]]' promotional materials from the late 1930s referred to their fleet of airliners as "Sky Zephyrs."<ref name="Northwest timetable">{{cite web |title=Northwest Airlines timetable, 1939 |url=http://www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/nw/nw3903/nw3903-1.jpg |website=timetableimages.com |access-date=10 June 2019 |archive-date=December 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191205004115/http://www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/nw/nw3903/nw3903-1.jpg |url-status=live }}</ref> If advertisers could find a way to cash in on Zephyr-mania, they did.
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