Word: capts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next morning, at 1 a. m., a band of about 300 Liberal soldiers, not yet disarmed, offered resistance in the hamlet of La Paz Centro to a platoon of U. S. marines commanded by Capt. Richard Bell Buchanan. For two hours and a half the engagement continued. Captain Buchanan fell, wounded in the chest and arms, and died some hours later. Fourteen Nicaraguans were killed. The rest scattered, but not until Private Marvin Andrew Jackson, U. S. M. C., had been instantly killed by a shot through the brain...
...Angeles, Calif., Capt. John Olson of the S. S. Quinalt eyed himself in his mirror, removed his $500 diamond stickpin, detached his necktie, laid them on the shelf over the basin, shaved. Soon he gave a shout, raced from his cabin dived overboard, swam to the Quinalt's scuppers, trod water, cupped his hands beneath the pouring stream of wastage. His anxious frown became a glad grin when the $500 diamond stickpin tumbled out and he caught...
...Start. Late one evening last week Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh studied weather reports and decided that the elements were propitious for a flight from New York to Paris. He took a two-hour sleep, then busied himself with final preparations at Roosevelt Field, L. I. Four sandwiches, two canteens of water and emergency army rations, along with 451 gallons of gasoline were put into his monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis. "When I enter the cockpit," said he, "it's like going into the death chamber. When I step out at Paris it will be like getting a pardon from...
Next day, he visited the mother of Capt. Charles Nungesser, talked with his own mother over radiophone, related his flight to newspapermen, glanced at hundreds of cablegrams...
...confidence in aviation and the lust for adventure created by Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh's flight, led airmen to predict a doubling in U. S. flying activity in 1927 and 1928. In the few days following the news of Captain Lindbergh's arrival in Paris, aviation schools throughout the U. S. reported a host of new applicants who wanted to be taught the art of flying. Barnstorming pilots noted a significant increase in the number of people who were willing to pay $3 and $5 for a few minutes' ride. One editorial writer said: "America is flying...