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High. Last week a 3,700 h.p. Alfa-Romeo Cant Zappata, with Italian Pilots Stoppani & Di Mauro, carrying 4.400 Ib. of pay load, rose to 29,344 ft. (over 5½ mi.) above Trieste-a record for seaplanes and additional support for the assertion of National Aeronautic Association's president. Charles Horner. that Italy leads the U. S. in aviation "by a substantial margin...
...Chicago, Alfa C. Day, elevator operator in the Hollander furniture warehouse, was carrying several passengers to an upper floor. Outside on Fullerton Avenue, a sewer explosion sent a manhole coyer soaring five stories in the air, arching down through the warehouse skylight, crashing into the elevator shaft, killing Alfa...
...Harry Miller, who built nearly all the first-string racing cars in this country, stopped building racing cars two or three years ago, the waves of nationalism that have swept over Italy and Germany have resulted in the development of the most prodigious racing machines ever seen. The Italian Alfa-Romeos and the German Mercedes and Auto Union, which are their match in every respect, have engines of over 400 h.p. in cars which weigh less than half the weight of a Chevrolet, and they have all exceeded a speed of 200 mi. per hour on the straight. They have...
...Rome he drives a roaring Alfa-Romeo five-passenger sedan and Edda's friends go to him when they want a traffic ticket torn up. At 6:30 p.m. each day Foreign Minister Count Ciano stands before Dictator Mussolini for high-pressure contact on world affairs, then goes directly home to dinner or to one of the dazzling Roman social functions Edda likes. As soon as Italy and Germany began getting together on the question of helping the Spanish Whites (TIME, Aug. 24), a trip to Berlin loomed and young Count Ciano buckled down to study German furiously...
...trials had made it apparent that U. S. drivers would be outclassed. Fastest qualifying time was made by nervous little Roman-nosed Tazio Nuvolari, who has won 87 out of the 153 races he has entered and is currently considered Europe's best driver. In a bright red Alfa-Romeo, wearing a white helmet, yellow sweater and blue denim pants, Nuvolari took the lead on the first lap. Close behind, in identical Alfa-Romeos, came his two countrymen, Count Brivio and Dr. Giuseppe Farina. After the first few laps the crack-ups and collisions which the crowd had come...