Word: captain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...holiday mood from the moment he stepped out of the presidential DC-6 Independence at Boca Chica airport near Key West. He paused on the loading ramp, grinned and held his broad-brimmed tan hat high for the photographers. Then, coming down, he shook hands with white-uniformed Captain Cecil C. Adell, commander of the naval base to which he was bound, and demanded...
...Tell me what the temperature is right this minute. It's 81, isn't it?" Then he added, with a nod toward his daughter Margaret: "She owes me one dollar if it's 80 or over." The captain flushed, looked as though he wished he were dead, but refused to form an alliance with the President: the temperature was 70.8 degrees. "I'm afraid," said Captain Adell in a barely audible voice, "she doesn't owe you a dollar." the "Winter White House," and as he was driven up Truman Avenue (formerly Division Street...
Harry Darby learned the boilermaker's trade in his father's small shop, was a combat artillery captain in World War I, and on his father's death in 1923 brashly borrowed $120,000 from a bank to buy and improve his father's boiler shop, groomed it into a rich and versatile steel-fabricating company...
...homeowners, businessmen and farmers complained because they could not sell their properties except at state-fixed prices. There was no unemployment or serious want, but wage and salary earners worked at income levels which smothered incentive: a ship's cook often earned more than a ship's captain; bus drivers, postmen and newspaper reporters got more or less the same pay. Taxes ate away people's earnings. Many imports, especially automobiles, were rationed, leaving popular demand unsatisfied. Thousands of young New Zealanders emigrated to find freer opportunities abroad...
...nightfall of Oct. 21, 1805, the battle off Trafalgar was all but over. Admiral Lord Nelson, who paid for the victory with his life, had become forever the great captain of the seagoing British Empire. But to one commander in the shattered French fleet, there seemed at least a chance of honorable escape. Accompanied by three French ships of the line, Rear Admiral Dumanoir le Pelley sheeted home his sails and set off in his flagship, the 74-gun Duguay-Trouin, for the safety of a French Atlantic port. Badly scarred by gunfire from Nelson's own ship Victory...