Word: caproni
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...down from the same Ethiopian village in 1896. Behind them both marched a carefully chosen column of Ras Gugsa's own tribesmen, tall fezzed Askaris from Eritrea, and a regiment of Italian Bersaglieri, cock feathers fluttering from their helmets. A thumping band blared Giovinezza while overhead buzzed 21 Caproni bombers led by Il Duce's ace son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano. Ras Gugsa, whose tribesmen had led the unopposed Italian advance all the way from Aduwa, 60 miles to the north last week, moved into his palace. By order of white bearded General Emilio de Bono...
Soon after dawn in Asmara, Eritrea, Il Duce's Son-in-law Count Galeazzo Ciano climbed into his flying clothes and stepped out to start the war personally. Seven huge Caproni bombers, black against the pale morning light, were already lined up; their engines idling. Il Duce's two sons, Bruno and Vittorio, now lieutenants in the air force, saluted, and took their places. Overalled mechanics crouched under each plane, screwing fuses in gleaming rows of high explosive bombs. In his pilot's seat Count Ciano opened the throttle, then waved his hand as a signal...
Good names in Italian aviation are Donati, Caproni and Stella. Renato Donati is a War flyer who has been breaking altitude records for light planes since 1927. Caproni is one of the most important builders of Italian military aircraft. Stella is a type of engine. One day last week at Montecelio Airfield outside Rome smiling young Pilot Donati stuffed himself into a gutta percha flying suit, crammed his feet into oiled boots, strapped an oxygen mask to his face. Then he gunned the Stella engine of his Caproni biplane, shot into the sky, and climbed, climbed, climbed. Stella...
...President of the U. S. Isotta sales company is Ugo V. D'An-nunzio, son of Italy's Poet-Soldier Gabriele D'Annunzio. Short, plump, light-com-plexioned, modest, 43, Son D'Annunzio came to the U. S. in 1917 to supervise the manufacture of Caproni bombing planes at Fisher Body plant. He returns to Italy once a year, spends evenings discussing aviation and literature with his father. Italians remember that Son Ugo was a child prodigy, gave violin concerts in many big cities at the age of seven. In addition to selling Isottas...
...airport near the harbor, Western Electric Co., building a $24,000,000 generating plant. Others are Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Co., whose Baltimore factory was only recently completed, Bethlehem Steel, which maintains there the world's largest tidewater steel plant, General Electric, and of aviation companies Berliner-Joyce, Curtiss-Caproni, Doyle Aero. Industries such as these, Baltimoreans hope, will transform their City of Monuments into a city of tycoons, will swell Baltimore's population from 850,000 to the more satisfactory 1,000,000. Such transformation and swelling seemed to move a step nearer last week when...