Word: balbo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world's record for a non-stop flight-in-formation. After 25 hr. of methodical flight, five of the 5F sextet swooped down on the naval base at Coco Solo, Canal Zone, 1,788 nautical miles from Norfolk-160 nautical miles better than Italo Balbo's record hop with ten planes across the South Atlantic in 1931. One plane with engine trouble lagged 40 mi. behind. Around the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington last week it was jubilantly hinted that Squadron 5F might be sent on a 3,000-mi. jaunt up the west coast to San Diego...
...Montreal, two Cuban bodyguards rushed him down the gangplank into a waiting automobile. Canadian police formed around him, escorted him at breakneck speed to the Mount Royal Hotel. Safe in the suite which General Italo Balbo occupied two months ago, he told newshawks : "We have with us barely sufficient pocket money to meet our traveling expenses. All my property, real and otherwise, is in Cuba and I have no money in any bank outside of Cuba...
...Pinedo, rich, young and brashly daring, was the toast of Italy for his 35,000-mi. flight to Australia, Japan, India and return; six years since his circling of Africa, South America and the U. S. Mussolini made him a General and Chief of Staff for Air under Italo Balbo...
...careless match that burned up his ship. Then he came down at sea, had to be towed for seven days into Fayal. Now came worse. Some say it was the House of Savoy, angered because he dared court Princess Giovanna (today Queen of Bulgaria). Some say it was Italo Balbo, jealous of de Pinedo's acclaim. Some say it was because de Pinedo "forgot" about a half-million-lire fund raised for him by Italo-Americans to buy a new plane. Italo's hero was suddenly, drastically demoted, attached ob- scurely to the embassy in Buenos Aires. There...
Hundreds of miles away in Rome there was more news to excite the Italian War Office. Il Duce himself took over the new Ministry of National Defense, combining Army, Navy and Air. Marshal Italo Balbo became Chief of Staff, another reward for his spectacular Chicago flight. Benito's other favorite, spade-bearded Dino Grandi, returned to his old post as Foreign Minister...