Word: captains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seven years since a humming speck moved across the 1,960 miles of fog-hung ocean separating Newfoundland and Ireland, and deposited Captain John W. Alcock and Lieutenant A. Whitten Brown safely on "the other side" in 16 hours, 12 minutes. The late Lord Northcliffe enriched those two flyers with some $50,000 in prize money and prophesied that soon London newspapers would be sold the day of issue in Manhattan. But no man has since attempted the feat of a non-stop transatlantic passage in a heavier-than-air* machine, though of late years a Manhattan hotel man, Raymond...
...Argonauts, Inc., formed to back Captain Fonck, that a ship, the S-35, would be made within 10% of certain specifications. No mention was made by Captain Fonck of Hotelman Orteig's $25,000 prize money and last week, with the Sikorsky ship a-testing, the public had all but forgotten there was a prize . Data. Captain Fonck's two care fully-chosen U. S. companions for the flight are Captain Homer M. Berry, pilot, and Lieut. Allan P. Snody, navigator. The S-35 has a wingspread of 101 feet. Her motors are three Gnome-Rhone-Jupiters...
...motor will be cut out, then another, leaving two reserve motors for the end of the flight. The average speed will be 110 m.p.h.; estimated flying time, New York-to-Paris, 35 hrs. All the past week, U. S. weather men have been mapping Atlantic air-currents for Captain Fonck's benefit. Trans-Atlantic steamers have flashed weather reports. Steamships are supplied with cards bearing silhouettes of the S-35 to aid in recognition, and instructions for reporting, having sighted her. The S-35 carries an elaborate radio outfit and has been assigned special wavelengths by the Department...
...That Captain Otto C. Dowling, who was in command at Lake Denmark, be awarded the D. S. C.: that the Navy Cross be awarded posthumously to designated men of the Navy and Marine Corps who lost their lives in the disaster; that the Navy Cross be awarded to Private Casmer N. Kensick of the Marine Corps...
...Married. Captain Lowell H. Smith, "Magellan" of the aroundthe-world airplane flight in 1924; to Mrs. Madelaine C. Symington, in Los Angeles. Married. Louise Brooks, 18, piquant cinema ingenue (most recently seen in It's the Old Army Game, TIME, July 19, CINEMA), youthful veteran of George White's Scandals, Ziegfeld Follies, Louis the Fourteenth; to Edward Sutherland, cinema director, in Man- hattan. Married. Mrs. Marion Cleveland Dell, daughter of President Grover Cleveland and the now Mrs. Thomas J. Preston Jr. to John Harlan Amen, Manhattan lawyer, son of the late Principal of Phillips Exeter Academy; at Tamworth...