Word: biancamano
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...days after the Vulcania embarked, the Biancamano set sail from Sicily, bound for Somaliland, with 100 officers, 2,600 soldiers and quantities of supplies including motor trucks, artillery and motorized artillery...
...Oceanside. L. I. in a 16-ft. motorboat, headed for Sheepshead Bay. The wind swept them off their course, far out to sea. Their gasoline gave out, they drifted for five days without food or water. On the sixth day, according to Warshauer, they sighted the S. S. Conte Biancamano, crack passenger liner of the Lloyd Sabaudo Line. When the steamer came within hailing distance, the castaways waved distress signals, shouted for help. Passengers and crew waved back, they said, but the liner sailed by without stopping. Two days later Coast Guardsmen rescued the drifting men, rushed them...
...Catholic clubs Azione Cattolica and vice versa. Spurred Italy's rapidly expanding mer chant marine by inducing all the larger Italian lines to merge last week into a new operating trust, the Lloyd Orientale. The mammoth merged fleet includes Vulcania (Cosulich), the Conte Grande and Conte Biancamano (Lloyd Sabaudo). Rumor named Count Costanzo Ciano. Minister of Communications and father-in-law of Daughter Edda. as the destined board chairman of Lloyd Orientale, thus making Italy's entire merchant marine a Mussolini-Ciano family affair. Expanded plans for the loth anniversary (next year) of Fascism's March...
...conferring with Wall Street bankers, if he was borrowing more money for Britain, no word of it leaked to the Press. In the midst of the excitement, Secretary Andrew W. Mellon of the U. S. Treasury reappeared on the international scene by disembarking from the Conte Biancamano at New York. A flashlight bulb exploded almost in his face...
...year-old Secretary leaped back quickly, suffered only a slight glass cut on his right hand which Captain Cavallini of the Conte Biancamano swabbed with alcohol and iodine. Secretary Mellon immediately hurried downtown to confer with Governor George Leslie Harrison of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York...