Word: balbo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General Italo Balbo's 24 seaplanes had been not Italian but Japanese; if they had flown not across the Atlantic but eastward across the Pacific; if they had landed for a -goodwill" visit not at Chicago's lakefront but in Seattle's Puget Sound - they would have received a punctiliously polite welcome. But the average U. S. citizen would have felt about the same as the average Frenchman felt last month when Balbo's armada came roaring across the Alps out of Italy to blacken the skies of France. Last week France's Air Ministry...
...Lindberghs, Charles Augustus & Anne, took off from New York in their Lockheed monoplane for a two-month tour of the Labrador-Greenland-Iceland air route now being traversed by Balbo's Italian armada. The project is sponsored by Pan American Airways, of which Col. Lindbergh is technical adviser. From New York, where their plane was nearly fouled in mid-air by flying news photographers, the Lindberghs skirted the coast to North Haven, Me., there briefly visited their infant son Jon at the Morrow summer estate...
...Shediac, N. B. en route with his seaplane armada back to Italy, General Italo Balbo cut with silver shears a red-white-&-green ribbon across what formerly was Pleasant Street, where he first set foot on Canadian soil. It became Balbo Avenue...
...World's Fair, newsphotographers cornered General Italo Balbo and Mrs, Morton L, Schwartz, Manhattan socialite whose command of Italian gave her an advantage over other hostesses and enabled her to monopolize him both in Chicago and on Long Island. Cameramen barked: "Look this way, General. . . . Hold the lady by the arm, Mr. Balbo." General Balbo grinned, replied: "Nuts...
...brand new automobile-the only pomp requested by simple Pilot Post-pilot & party sped to Manhattan, police sirens shrilling through the late city crowds. General Italo Balbo, who had been caught in a traffic jam while trying to reach the field, waved from his car as they shot by. At the Hotel Roosevelt a physician found Post's condition good, noted that his hand was steady as a rock...