Word: commands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Federal Court in Manhattan, a handsome, boyish Swedish merchant marine officer unemotionally went back and forth over the dozen minutes of his life that he would never forget nor be allowed to forget. On the night of July 25, Third Mate Johan-Ernst Carstens-Johannsen, 26, was in command of the bridge of the 12,500-ton Swedish liner Stockholm when she speared and sank the 29,000-ton Italian liner Andrea Doria. At stake, as he told his story, were not only legal claims totaling some $40 million but the still unanswered questions of blame in the great North...
...took the watch on Stockholm's bridge at 8:30 p.m., said Carstens-Johannsen. About an hour later Captain H. G. Nordenson went below, leaving him in command to maintain a course of 87°. The speed was 18 or 19 knots, and the night, he testified, was clear, with good visibility and a full view of the moon. As Stockholm sliced eastward from New York Harbor toward Nantucket lightship, he was bothered only by ocean currents that pulled the ship two or three miles northward off course, and by the need to keep a weather...
...Hill. Tacho Somoza ruled Nicaragua for 22 years by king-of-the-hill toughness. "I'll give this country peace if I have to shoot every other man in Nicaragua to get it," he announced just after the U.S. Marines, ending their occupation in 1933, turned over the command of the Guardia to him. The Guardia shot scores -and brought peace. Meanwhile, by "buying from heirs" Somoza acquired coffee fincas and cattle ranches, parlayed them into a fortune estimated at $60 million-some $20 million more than Nicaragua's annual budget. He reputedly owned one-tenth...
...giant American Telephone & Telegraph Co. quietly reshuffled its top command last week. After five years as president, Cleo F. Craig, 63, moved out of the operating slot and up to chairman of the board well before the mandatory retirement age of 65 in order to give his successor a two-year break-in period. A.T & T.'s new chief executive: President Frederick R. Kappel (rhymes with apple), 54, a 32-year man at A.T. & T., who has been head of the company's manufacturing subsidiary, Western Electric, since...
...prepared to do anything-and Sarah made sure she did. Under Queen Anne, Sarah became Groom of the Stole, Mistress of the Robes and Comptroller of the Privy Purse: soon "the Queen was surrounded by Churchills," all on the make and growing richer every day. John was given command of the Anglo-Dutch armies, and with Sarah holding the fort at home, began his unrivaled series of British military triumphs...