Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...horses began to run; the people began to shout. Captain Lindbergh did not shout, but he could see that one horse took the lead at the start and held it until he crossed the finish line, a winner. This horse was the favorite, Call...
...Hurry On" and half-brother of Captain Cuttle and Coronach-all of them Derby winners in recent years...
...Married. Captain W. A. Tyler, 99, probably sole survivor of the battle of Fort Sumter, onetime superintendent of Arlington Cemetery; to Mrs. Martha Jellison, 70; at the Illinois Soldiers' Home, Quincy...
...young pilots-training in the Army during Wartime, barnstorming, stunt flying. Then he got a backer and a superbly designed Wright-Bellanca monoplane. He shattered the endurance record by remaining in the air (with chunky Bert Acosta) for 51 hours. He was ready to conquer the Atlantic long before Captain Charles Augustus Lindbergh came out of the West, but bickerings disturbed his camp...
...amazed the crowd at Roosevelt Field and caused his wife to swoon, when he quietly climbed into the Columbia's cockpit beside Chamberlin and was off for somewhere in Europe. Chamberlin followed Captain Lindbergh's general route from Long Island to Newfoundland and thence across the Atlantic...