Word: hispano
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...equipped with push buttons for books, chromatic lights, music from one of his eight radios. Bill Paley lived there a while, then moved into a conventional bedroom. He was too active, too aggressive to enjoy lying in fancy beds. But he has a radio in his Hispano-Suiza, always keeps one going at home...
...from Paris' Le Bourget Field, into the dawn one day last week flew a great Dewoitine monoplane built for Perfumer François Coty. Its long, tapered wings stretched out 95 ft. Its Hispano Suiza engine roared with 650 h. p. Its narrow fuselage bore the legend Trait d'Union ("Hyphen"). In the cabin were short, squint-eyed Joseph Marie Lebrix, onetime flying partner (now enemy) of Dieudonné Coste; famed Aerobat Marcel Doret, and Mechanic René Mesnin. They were bound nonstop for Tokyo, 6,032 mi. away, farther than any plane had flown in a straight...
...Ford freight plane, powered by a single 600-h. p. water-cooled Hispano-Suiza engine. Except for the long snout-like motor and four-bladed propeller, the ship bears many outward resemblances to the tri-motored Ford transport...
Spain manufactures a few hundred ultrasmart Hispano-Suizas; all her other cars are imported, most of them from the U. S. Last June Prime Minister Berenguer and Minister de Viguri noted that Spain had an adverse trade balance of $91,000,000. They promptly slapped a whopping tariff on all cars. Spain's motor imports promptly evaporated...
...Kiev Period; Mr. T. F. Currier, for the completion of a Bibliography of John Greenleaf Whittier; Professors W. S. Ferguson, for the publication of "The Treasurers of Athena"; J. D. M: Ford, for the publication of a Bibliography of Cervantes, for continuing his work of the Harvard Council on Hispano-American Studies, for the preparation of a Grammar of Old French...