Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When and where did Count Ciano become an ace? If he has earned this title in the present war, he must have shot down the entire Ethiopian air force single handed...
...have a vague recollection that an "ace" must have five or more planes to his credit. If this is so, does the Count qualify? If not, just what is an ''Ace?" ALLEN B. BROWN Des Moines, Iowa...
Count Ciano is an ace only as usage has pinned the title to such able airmen as Charles A. Lindbergh. Henceforth TIME will adhere to current military standards, bestow the rank only upon flyers who down five enemy planes and prove...
...WHEN the ace campus chemist test tubes the wrong acids hand him a camera with which to catch anew aerial view of the campus. Or better yet, send COLLEGIATE DIGEST photos of the accident scene and principles. The "Eyes Over the Campus" editor will pay you the professional news photographers rates $3 for all photos he accepts for publication...
...Behind them both marched a carefully chosen column of Ras Gugsa's own tribesmen, tall fezzed Askaris from Eritrea, and a regiment of Italian Bersaglieri, cock feathers fluttering from their helmets. A thumping band blared Giovinezza while overhead buzzed 21 Caproni bombers led by Il Duce's ace son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano. Ras Gugsa, whose tribesmen had led the unopposed Italian advance all the way from Aduwa, 60 miles to the north last week, moved into his palace. By order of white bearded General Emilio de Bono he had been appointed the puppet Governor of Tigre...