Word: capts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their dining room. "This is terrible," gasped an attaché. "Oh, I've seen worse," shrugged Mr. Hoover. He was up, wandering about in a bathrobe, several times during the night. The clouds broke and the Southern Cross shone through. Soon after sunrise, Mrs. Hoover joined him and Capt. Kimberley on the bridge to admire the ship's handling, the towering seas...
Hysterical survivors filled the press with stories of leaking lifeboats, faulty tackle, indifference of officers, mutinous and incompetent crew. Capt. William J. Carey went down with his ship; but those who watched him on the bridge, taciturn, deaf to questions and pleas, wonder why he deferred SOS until 20 hours after danger became apparent...
...would be more accurate, however, to refer to Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson as "the leading wet publisher in America." He is as outspoken as a wealthy publisher can be; and furthermore his Liberty, Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News are read by more than 4,000,000 people. His partner in these enterprises is his cousin. Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick. The two men are not one in editorial policy. Capt. Patterson, whose chief interest is the New York Daily News, supported Alfred Emanuel Smith in the campaign; every day, during the two months before election, the Daily News said...
Soda Fountain. Said Capt. C. W. Gilbert of the Panama Mail Line's Venezuela, last week, "I have watched American citizens when they had every opportunity to drink hard liquor if they wished. Most of them just don't do it." Impressed, company directors installed a soda fountain on his ship, were gratified when it reported $100 business between New York and the Pacific Coast...
...Died. Capt. Charles B. D. Collyer, 32, and Harry Tucker, 34, famed transContinental flyers, flying the Lockheed-Vega plane, Yankee Doodle, following a crash in the Bradshaw Mountains, Arizona, in an attempt to make another West-East flight. Recently they made a record for an East-West non-stop flight-24 hours 51 minutes. With John Henry Mears, theatrical producer, Capt. Collyer established, last July, the round-the-world record (airplane & steamship) in 23 days. Last August, Tucker with Arthur Goebel piloting the same Yankee Doodle, flew from Los Angeles to Curtis Field, L. I., in 18 hours 58 minutes...