Word: capts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Daily News (daily 1,226,000, Sunday 1,416,000) and the Chicago Tribune (daily 811,000, Sunday 1,167,000). The first, a tabloid, is the offspring of the second. Both are published by Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, 47, and Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson, 49. Col. McCormick devotes most of his time to the Tribune, while Capt. Patterson's chief interest is the Daily News...
...distribution of nearly $1,000,000 worth of "lucky number" coupons, both newspapers distinguished themselves in bad taste and the Tribune achieved a domination which has never since been threatened. Andy & Min Gump became world figures and the Tribune Tower was built (Col. McCormick chose the site and Capt. Patterson suggested the $100,000 contest for an architectural design). This April, the Tribune won another great victory when it led the attack that smashed the Thompson-Small-Crowe-Smith machine in the Republican primaries (TIME, April 23). To the victor belong the boasts; and boast the Tribune...
Reporters, telegraphers, editors, printers were the first to feel the effect of their flight; to them it meant just another day of newspapers. Skippers of steamships next craned their necks, scanning the leaden skies for some sign of this fleeting Bremen.* But when Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, Capt. Hermann Koehl and Maj. James C. Fitzmaurice dropped onto the frozen waste of Greenly Island in Southern Labrador, far off their expected course, they gave Lighthouse Keeper Le Tempier a torch with which to light the fires of the world...
...dangers of the 2,200-mile trip, slightly south of the North Pole on the Greenland side over a region never before seen by articulate man, particularly beckoned to Capt. Wilkins. He finally made it in 20½ hours of flying time, in a small Lougheed Vega plane capable of a sustained speed of 135 miles an hour. His record indicates that he would have made the trip had it taken forever...
...Capt. Wilkins-Australian adventurer, photographer in the Balkan War, cameraman for Stefansson in his North...