Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could circle the Pole, we wished him well. It was only when the faulty design of the Italia caused her to crumple, that my own heart became troubled. Too well I knew, as did all Norwegians, that Amundsen would feel compelled to rescue Nobile, because the Italian had wronged...
Volpi put the lira back on gold (TIME, Jan. 2). Volpi adroitly won huge concessions from the U. S. and Great Britain in funding the Italian debts to those powers (TIME, Nov. 23, 1925). As Finance Minister, Volpi has been for three years past the one Italian statesman with whom U. S. big business has found it possible to deal-man to man, without undue formality, with absolute confidence...
Scarcely had the echoes of this achievement died down when two veteran Italian aviators turned to the record business in earnest. Captain Arturo Ferrarin, 32-year-old War veteran, pilot of bombers and pursuit planes, was a member of the victorious 1926 Schneider Cup team. Major Carlo P. Delprete accompanied Commander Francesco de Pinedo on his tour of the Americas in 1927. No tyros, these two airmen chose a thick-winged Savoia-Marchetti monoplane, set out to break the endurance record won for the U. S. by Stinson and Haldeman. They remained in the air 58 hours and 34 minutes...
...pained and depressed the most patriotic editors, but Ferrarin and Delprete pushed the Polar Pilgrim into obscure corners. Typical of the unrestrained expression of the newspapers was the comment of Lavoro: "It almost seems that today in all the skies of the world can be heard the palpitating of Italian wings; from the overcast skies of the Arctic regions to the scintillating heavens of the tropics is being carried that great magic word, 'Italia,' by intrepid hearts and by robust wings. ..." Somewhat obscurely, La Tribuna mused: "We are in the presence of the flight of an entire generation...
Should Dictator Mussolini's eagerness remain unsatisfied, what can obedient Fascists add to Italy's aeronautical glories? Rival nations reflected, last week, that many a record still withstands the Italian onslaught. Among them...