Search Details

Word: littoria (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Italy, the black market took on an official tone. When he asked the customs inspector at the Littoria airport to exchange dollars, the inspector regretted that he could give only the official exchange of 220 lire. But he pointed to a bus driver who would give 500. By haggling in Rome the adman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Road to Capri | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

Last week Mrs. Mills heard startling news about frail Jimmy: in Italy, 21-year-old Private James H. Mills of the infantry had won the Congressional Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry during his first encounter with the enemy. Last May, near Cisterna de Littoria, he had knocked out two Nazi machine-gun nests singlehanded by killing four Germans (with five shots) and capturing seven more. Then he had repeatedly set himself up as a decoy target while his platoon surrounded an enemy strong point and captured 22 prisoners without suffering a casualty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MEDALS: Mother's Boy | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

...Littoria (Italian parent of Lati air line from Rome to Rio de Janeiro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR ECONOMY: Axel & The Axis | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...there has never been as complete weather information available as that available here today." This was the cue for American Export Air Lines' energetic, Pan American-trained Vice President James Murchie Eaton to announce a new transatlantic air partnership-American Export Air Lines and Italy's Ala Littoria. There to confirm this news was suave Colonel Carlo Pezzani, adviser to the Balbo flight five years ago, now Ala Littoria operations chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Weather Eyes | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

From the $600,000 collection brought by courier, Zog chose a diamond tiara, a bracelet, brooch and two rings. The courier and his jewel box then boarded a Rome-bound Ala Littoria (Italian) airliner for his journey to Paris. After crossing the Apennines, the liner plunged into fog, suddenly smashed into the slope of Mt. Altino near Formia. The jewel box hurtled clear, burst open and spread the gems over the ground. Startled shepherds clambered to the plane, found it a blazing wreck, with the 19 passengers and crew dead. They pocketed as many of the bright stones as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Lost & Found | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | Next