Word: messina
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With reference to the article "Ferry on Skis" [June 22], I want to draw your attention to some misstatements about who really deserves the credit for the design and the development of the hydrofoil boats built by the Rodriquez Shipyard in Messina, Italy, under a license agreement of Supramar Ltd. The indisputable merit for the invention and the design of hydrofoil boats of the "Schertel-Sachsenberg System" goes to Baron von Schertel-by the way, a grandson of the founder of the Schaefer Brewery in New York. Since World War II, all patent rights belong to Supramar Ltd., which...
There a friend of Don Juan's got a cable from Messina, Sicily, signed "Con-de Barcelona" (one of his titles), saying he would be along four days hence. When he arrived, Prendergast found him wearing a sailor's blue dungarees, faded blue canvas sneakers and "for reasons I'll never know, only one sock. I like the man tremendously...
...Italians comfortably out in front in commerical hydrofoil development is Carlo Rodriquez, 51, a tall, reticent Sicilian engineer whose Spanish ancestors settled in Italy 150 years ago. Since 1958 Rodriquez has turned out 42 hydrofoil ferries at his 500-man Messina shipyard. Today, his aliscafi wing between Venice and Trieste, thread the fjords of Norway, link Caribbean islands, and are about to begin regular service between Montevideo and Buenos Aires. Last year Rodriquez sold $3,100,000 worth of hydrofoils; this year, with $1,800,000 in sales so far, he expects to do substantially better...
Rodriquez, anxious to expand his family's 61-year-old shipyard, bought Lobau out and has kept him at work in Messina ever since...
...trial in Messina last week the laymen, recalling the gardener's fate, said only that they knew nothing. Clearly they would be no help in answering the key question: Were the friars only tools of anonymous higher-ups, or were they the masterminds? Either way, their action had brought grief to the Capuchins of Sicily. Said Father Sebastiano, provincial head of the order, who himself had been shaken down by the ring: "Even among us, somebody sometimes makes mistakes...