Word: major
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every nation wants for itself the glory of making and breaking records. Italy is no exception. Vexed because major aeronautical records were scarce in Italy, because the Schneider Cup race had been lost to England, Dictator Mussolini last winter ordered civil aviators to concentrate on the problem of record-gathering. Obligingly, three faithful Fascists chalked up three new records in a little more than three months...
...Major Mario de Bernardi, hero of the 1926 Schneider Cup race, when Italy wrested the trophy from the U. S., was the first to obey Mussolini's command. Already the holder of the seaplane speed record, he went up last March and averaged 318.57 miles an hour over a measured course, beating his own record by more than 20 miles (TIME, April...
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...
They were in the air for more than two days, within one minute of 52 hours, before they landed at Point Genipabu, ten miles north of Natal, Brazil, having flown 4,417 miles* to give Dictator Mussolini his third major record of the year...
...America, in Argentina, Venezuela, Peru, Persia, the Dutch East Indies, in the U. S. itself.* The Shell Union Corp., American subsidiary of Dutch Shell, has assets listed at $348,129,212, itself produces more oil than the great enemy of its parent company. The war goes on, though quietly. Major battles, with all war correspondents on hand, are perhaps ended...