Word: fraschini
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...from the fact that, on a recent visit to the White House. Governor Pinchot drove up in a blue Rolls-Royce-a borrowed car. Besides the State-owned Studebaker, Governor Pinchot has a Studebaker of his own. which he scrupulously uses on private expeditions. Mrs. Pinchot drives an Isotta-Fraschini; their son, Gifford Jr., a Lincoln...
...ships, cream of 96 tested for the expedition, are Savoia-Marchetti S-55 hydroplanos* similar to those of the South Atlantic flight, great twin-hulled affairs with the pilots' compartment housed in a bridge between the hulls. Mounted above the bridge are two Isotta-Fraschini engines in tandem, each driving with 800 h.p. a three-bladed propeller. Cruising speed: 137 m.p.h. Cruising range...
...Most powerful engine in service in the world: Isotta-Fraschini's 1,000 h. p. in an Italian Fiat fighter. Most powerful engine ever to fly: Rolls Royce's special job for the 1931 Schneider Trophy, rated at 1,600 h. p., supercharged...
Foolscap (by Gennaro Curci & Eduardo Ciannelli; Sheppard & Buchanan, producers) opens in a ward of a madhouse. A bewhiskered gentleman in a Chevrolet has just bumped into a goaty little man in an Isotta Fraschini. They introduce themselves from adjoining cots, the former being none other than George Bernard Shaw, the latter Luigi Pirandello. Since they are to be confined for at least a week while their bruises heal, the international playwriting team agrees to concoct a drama to be acted by the asylum's inmates...
...following story became public last week: Three months ago an Isotta-Fraschini salesman was twiddling his thumbs in the company's swank Manhattan showroom. An Isotta-Fraschini is not sold every day. A passerby stopped, peered in. When he came in and started inquiring about the one he liked, the salesman was courteous. When he pulled out a checkbook, asked for a pen, the salesman was startled. When he wrote out a check for $18,500, departed leaving directions that the car be sent to the New York Athletic Club, the salesman looked at the check, was amazed...