Word: bianchi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BIANCHI...
...Commuter Cycle. A mile-a-minute bike was brought out by Bianchi, Italy's oldest bikemaker, who hopes to sell it to commuters in the U.S. to ride to the railroad station. Bianchi's new "World Champion" has ten gears operated by a hand shift, weighs only 23 lbs. (v. an average 47 lbs. for standard U.S. bikes) and has hit 60 m.p.h. ridden by Italian bike-racing Champion Fausto Coppi. Ordinary pedal pushers, says Bianchi, can do 50 m.p.h. without trouble. Price in Italy: $75. Price in U.S.: about...
EDWARD M. BIANCHI...
Snow in July. These copies reached subscribers ahead of the last three boat-shipped issues. Response was tremendous, the heartening kind that kept us at the job during the hectic war years to follow. High on the new list of readers was Manuel Bianchi, a Chilean who had taken the first Air Express subscription ever sold. Now Ambassador to the Court of St. James's and one of London's senior diplomats, Bianchi recently looked back over the decade of cover-to-cover reading and called TIME'S Latin American Edition "a major instrument for understanding." Added...
...Milan. A few minutes before 8, dark, heavy-set Giovanni Pretti, 30, had put on his tan & red uniform and cast a last look into the mirror from which signs asked him: "Hair Combed? Shaved? Uniform Clean and Neat? Shoes Shined? Friendly Smile?" He lovingly polished his brand-new Bianchi truck (one of 62 now covering Milan) and climbed into his seat...