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...over to the British plan. Traveling on a special Italian train, the British party were startled near Arquata Scrivia when the electric engine got tangled up in the overhead wires, tore down 500 yards of them. Rushing to the rescue, an Italian steam locomotive tugged the MacDonald train to Genoa where Air Minister General Italo Balbo waited at the controls of a big trimotored Italian seaplane. Flanked by nine escort planes, they darted toward Ostia (the seaplane port of Rome). In top hat, morning coat and carrying a cane. Il Duce peered skyward as Scot MacDonald, hatless and tousle-haired...
...show what they could do, the stabilizers were purposely reversed, rocked the ship 10°. Apart from stability, speed is the great feature of the Conte di Savoia. She and the Rex were built by the Italian Line to cut two days off the run from Manhattan to Genoa, which the Rex is now regularly doing...
Marquis Federico Negrotto Cambiaso, member of a potent old Genoa family, was elected president of Benito Mussolini's Italia Line, succeeding His Royal Highness Prince Luigi of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi, who resigned (TIME, Oct. 24) With the replacement of all but two directors and the appointment of a new general manager, this step completed the long-awaited reorganization of Il Duce's great shipping line...
What they said: James J. Walker (boarding the brand new 54,000-ton Rex, "Largest Ship Built Since The War," at Genoa): "If I were Mayor. New York would give this ship a grand show on her arrival-with fire boats and all the trimmings New York loves!" Captain Francisco Tarabotto (while Citizen Walker rushed back to his hotel for some left-behind papers'): "I will not wait one minute after twelve o'clock noon!" Five thousand Italians (standing at Fascist salute on Genoa piers as the Rex sailed with Citizen Walker aboard at the last minute): "Viva...
...French are blocked from their salvage claims, the British underwriters and the owners of the Artiglio II (the Sorima Co. of Genoa) will divide whatever comes up from the Egypt. Speaking for Lloyd's, Sir Percy assured the Italians that the French libeling of the Artiglio IPs gold cargo was but a legal incident which would not interrupt further work or profit. To Commander Quaglia, the Italian Minister of Communications Costanzo Ciano dashed a wireless message: "Warmest congratulations from Premier Mussolini to yourself and all the crew...