Word: pinedo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WANT TO BECOME A DE PINEDO...
...over Italy flared that legend six years ago. It was the recruiting slogan of the Italian Air Force. In hotels, drinking rooms, barber shops, banks, the legend was pasted above maps of the world, on which the course of the seaplane Santa Maria, captained by Commander Francesco de Pinedo ("Messenger of Italianity," "Conqueror of the Air"), was charted from Sardinia to West Africa, across the South Atlantic to Brazil, around South America and up to New Orleans, thence across the desert to Roosevelt Lake. Ariz. There careless mechanics let gasoline spill out on the water. A numskull gawper flipped...
General Francesco de Pinedo, Italy's onetime Chief of Staff for Aviation and round-the-world flyer, announced in Manhattan that he is thinking of raising potatoes in China. Said he: "There are 400,000,000 people in China and if every Chinese eats one potato a day that would be 40,000,000 kilos a day. That's a lot of potatoes...
...year Congress gave the Cross to Capt. Herman Koehl, Major James C. Fitzmaurice and Civilian-Passenger Baron Gunther von Huenefeld, who were rescued by Pilot Balchen after their monoplane Bremen stranded on Greenly Island. Casting aside all pretense of subtlety, Congress then bestowed the Cross in turn on de Pinedo, Coste and Lebrix - all deserving flyers, thinks Writer Allen, but so are a score of others illogically excluded, among them: Balchen, Acosta, Chamberlin, the late Wilmer Stultz, Brock & Schlee, Yancey & Williams, Kingsford-Smith...