Word: capts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...marine pilot, Capt. Howard, flying over Nicaragua involuntarily came to earth near La Luz mine on the east coast. His pontoon dug into the earth, ploughed a furrow. Corporal George Cole left to guard the plane, whiled away the time by panning out $100 worth of gold from a vein thus exposed...
...Married. Capt. the Viscount Caryl Nicholas Charles Hardinge, 23, fourth Viscount of Lahore and King's Newton, Derbyshire, Aide-de-camp to the Governor-General of Canada since 1926; to Margot Fleming, granddaughter of the late Sir Sanford Fleming, famed Canadian-Pacific railroad engineer & publicist; in Ottawa, Canada...
...Lieut-Col. Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla. Many present had known him in the U. S. He had been a co-worker with the late Ferdinand de Lesseps on the first attempt to dig a Panama canal. That project (by the French Campagnie Universelle du Canal de Panama) failed and Capt. Bunau-Varilla tried to persuade the U. S. to build a sea-level canal along the surveyed route. That was 27 years ago. Four years ago he was again in the U. S. This time he wore a wooden stump for his right leg shot off during...
...word dirigible is popularly and inaccurately used to refer to a rigid airship. Correctly, dirigible is an adjective describing any lighter-than-air craft with a propelling and steering system. *One of the competitors is American Brown Boveri Electric Corp., which employs famed Capt. Anton Heinen, designer of several Zeppelins and the ill-fated Shenandoah...
...Capt. Anton Heinen, builder of Zeppelins and the ill-fated U. S. dirigible Shenandoah, was made a citizen of the U. S. last week at Toms River, N. J. His examination score was 100%. He is now engaged in building two dirigibles for the U. S. Navy...