Word: captain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sixty miles west of Albany, an American Airlines DC-6, carrying 45 passengers from Boston to Syracuse, heard Albany Tower trying unsuccessfully to renew contact with Stultz. American's Captain Walter Moran, 46, a cool, methodical veteran pilot (14,000 hrs.), called the tower, offered the routine courtesy of relaying messages. From Albany Tower came the news...
...thought he had bought the farm," says Moran [meaning that he had cracked up]. But Stultz came back on, called happily that he had spotted an air marker on a roof below. It told him that he was above Coeymans Hollow. Albany Tower, checking with state police, informed Captain Moran that Stultz was only 20 miles south of the field. Moran radioed...
...partnership to scrape the guano deposits from caves in Pinar del Rio and Matanzas and ship it abroad as fertilizer. Castro decided that the commodity was much too valuable to share. In turning over exclusive control of bat guano to sprawling INRA, Castro noted that INRA Director Captain Antonio Núñez Jiménez is an expert spelunker, just the man to get in there and get the merchandise moving...
Midway in the second quarter, captain Hank Keohane recovered another Vasell fumble on the Crimson 27, and after 13 plays the score was 14 to 0. Halaby bulled over on fourth down for the six points...
While the Lions captain will be playing only for small periods at best, the Crimson "has not been in as good physical shape since the opening day of fall practice," Yovicsin said. Defensive back Jim Nelson, recovering from a bout with mononucleosis, is the only man not counted on to play...