Word: cols
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief handicap is Mexico City's altitude, a mile above sea level, where the thin atmosphere makes it difficult for a plane to rise with enough gasoline for the distance. In 1927, Col. Lindbergh flew in the reverse direction, from Washington to Mexico City, arriving with light tanks...
Lindbergh, Again. Col. Lindbergh, who gallivanted down to Mexico City to visit his fiancee, last week, flew to Brownsville, Tex., with air mail and back to Mexico City, the first round trip over the new air mail route...
...They accepted the resignation of onetime New York City Police Commissioner Col. Arthur Woods from the League's Anti-Opium Committee, and appointed in his place Chief of Police Jonkheer A. H. Sirks of Rotterdam...
...Brigade displayed a gleaming pair of gold cuff links last week, a present from Queen Mary. For Corporal Puddifoot was one of the four stretcher-bearers who bore the King-Emperor from Buckingham Palace to the motor ambulance which carried him to Bognor. Last week the King's Equerry, Col. Arthur Erskine, in behalf of the Queen, handed each of the four a pair of massive gold links, each large enough to bear the inscription: "A Memento of Her Majesty's Appreciation of Your Services...
...Burton, onetime President of Standard of Indiana; Melvin A. Traylor, president of Chicago's First National Bank; Thomas S. Cook and Dr. Gentry S. Cash. President Edward G. Seubert, a Stewart man, retained his position. Indeed, his functions were increased, since no Board Chairman was elected to succeed Col. Stewart...