Word: milano
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Swedish pilot won the international race to rescue Polar Pilgrim Nobile (TIME, June 25), from the perils of the Arctic ice pack. Flying an Army Fokker equipped with skis, Lieutenant Einar Lundborg landed on moving ice, took aboard Gen. Nobile, carried the pilgrim to his base ship Citta di Milano and medical aid. Heroic General Nobile's radio messages asking expert advice for treating the injuries of his companion had failed to mention his own fractured leg. Five castaways, Italians, awaited rescue...
...world and, warmed by the glow of an object accomplished, headed back through icy winds toward Kings Bay. It had taken him 19 hours to reach the Pole. The first 17 hours of the return trip brought many messages to the base ship Citta di Milano complaining of heavy winds and encrusting ice. These difficulties had interfered with Pilgrim Nobile's previous trip to Leninland (TIME, May 28). Suddenly the messages ceased . . . fears deepened . . . in San Francisco an S.O.S. was picked up from a Vladivostok station, a message asking help for the Italia in English, French, Italian. No position...
...city where there is many a fine towering pile erected to Mammon much has been made of the millions that have been spent and the millions that have yet to be spent in giving Manhattan what London, Aachen*, Paris, Reims, Wient, Milano, Roma, Seville have long hada magnificent Cathedral...
...Pope lunches. He delights in rice, done Milano style. But he is not an epicure; has never been known to refuse any dish placed before him. A meat, a few vegetables, some fruit...