Word: carriere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Manager, now Counsellor of the Associated Press, as guest of honor. The cruise extended up the Fore River to the Fore River Shipyards of the Bethlehem Ship Building Corporation. There he looked up at the giant unfinished hulk of the Lexington, the Navy's giant, speedy airplane carrier-to-be. There he was saluted by Captain Felipe Fleiss of the Argentine Navy, Commander of the battleship Rivadavia which (with the Moreno) is being converted from a coal to an oil burner at Fore River...
...many years the Southern R. R. paid no dividends on its non-cumulative preferred stock or on its common. Meanwhile, with the development of the Southern states, the great Southern carrier fell heir to greater and greater amounts of freight. Profits were garnered and plowed into better equipment and right of way, with the result that operating costs fell rapidly. Presently, earnings on the common became noticeably great, and dividends were suddenly declared on the 5% non-cumulative preferred, and then, at the same rate, on the common. The rise in the latter stock has proved one of the sensations...
...dropped, was up again, darting for cover, with White after it, followed by two natives with extra quivers of arrows. One carried also a small gun, by way of "mental comfort." The hidden leopard surprised one of White's companions, fell upon him and clawed him. The gun carrier came to the rescue and fired pointblank. More infuriated, the beast turned upon the firer, bit him furiously. White seized the fallen gun and fired the second shot, only to draw the leopard's attack on himself with such force that he was knocked down, leopard's teeth...
...Molokai for an air base; then to make a feint with the fleet at the south coast of Oahu, making its main landing attack on the north coast, with a secondary landing on the west coast. As a matter of fact, both Molokai and Lanai were seized. The airplane carrier Langley was kept well at sea to avoid the Black submarines and the Blue airplanes flew to land as soon as the Islands were taken. Before this, the Black airplanes inflicted losses on the landing parties, sinking a tender, but of course could not prevent the occupation of the Islands...
...Washington, D. C, 24 carrier pigeons were prepared for an Arctic expedition to accompany Explorer MacMillan polewards (TIME, Apr. 20, AERONAUTICS ; see also Page 20) in June. Although denied all other luxuries, the birds, passionately addicted to tobacco, were provided with "an ample chewing ration...