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Word: itala (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest of the way home, across Poland and Germany, the roads were good and the food was fine. Italian Prince Scipione Borghese, captain of the Itala crew, led a triumphant parade into Paris to complete what he called "the amplest, the completest, the most persuasive testing to which this new instrument has ever been subjected." The trip had taken just two months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Have Car, Will Travel | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

Meals by Blowtorch. The five cars on the odyssey made an odd lot. The heftiest, a four-cylinder Itala, weighed in at two tons and worked up to 40 h.p. The others: a couple of two-cylinder, 10-h.p. De Dions, a 15 h.p. Spyker, and a tiny (6 h.p.) three-wheel Tri-Contal. Before they had covered 20 miles, all the cars needed coolies to haul them most of the rest of the way to Kalgan, on the edge of the desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Have Car, Will Travel | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

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