Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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International holding shares crashed from $215 to $100; and hydro-electrics from $51 to $25. When the boards of both corporations affirmed their financial soundness, announced the death of Captain Loewenstein and scouted suicide theories, the prices of the shares recovered respectively...
...Chilean Naval Ministry at Santiago announced, last week, withholding all details, that the transport Anagamos sank with the loss of 291 lives, after running upon a rock near Point Nordhuila, and that Captain Corbeta Ismael Suarez not only did not leave his ship but committed suicide upon the bridge...
Scarcely had the echoes of this achievement died down when two veteran Italian aviators turned to the record business in earnest. Captain Arturo Ferrarin, 32-year-old War veteran, pilot of bombers and pursuit planes, was a member of the victorious 1926 Schneider Cup team. Major Carlo P. Delprete accompanied Commander Francesco de Pinedo on his tour of the Americas in 1927. No tyros, these two airmen chose a thick-winged Savoia-Marchetti monoplane, set out to break the endurance record won for the U. S. by Stinson and Haldeman. They remained in the air 58 hours and 34 minutes...
...Strawbridge Jr., Malcolm Stevenson, W. A. Harriman, E. A. S. Hopping, ten to eight. They played good polo. They knew that some fast young men from the Argentine were watching them, and that these Argentinians are going to be dangerous opponents in the International Cup matches in September. The captain of the Argentine team is Jack Nelson, rich breeder of ponies, horses, cattle. Then there is Lewis L. Lacey, a ten-handicap player, blue-eyed, slight of frame, five and a half feet tall, one of the grandest poloists in the world. He made famous the hit in midair...
...Captain Herman Koehl, Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, Major James Fitzmaurice, last week were honored by onetime royalty, snubbed by royalty's onetime subjects. Fresh from receptions in Bremen and Dublin, they flew to Doom, Holland, where Wilhelm II stood on the castle roof to wave them farewell with his one sound arm; thence to Cologne, Germany, where the city fathers, Kaiser-hating, failed to appoint a committee of welcome...