Word: russe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of Oct. 10 under the subject of "S. S. Rex'' you quote Giulio Gatti-Casazza ". . . every piece of equipment on the S. S. Rex was made in Italy." There are two soda fountains manufactured by the Russ Soda Fountain of Cleveland, Ohio-one each installed in the two first-class bars...
...Russ Soda Fountain Co. Cleveland, Ohio...
...Doolittle afterward: "I was nowhere near them. I must have been at least four feet over them." Once again he rocketed back & forth, this time endangered by splashing oil which smeared his windhood. His fastest lap was 309 m.p.h. Said he: "I left five miles more in her for 'Russ' Boardman. He can shoot the record up to more than...
Aboard the Niobe only the enlisted crew saw either the plane or the Therese Russ. The cadets, 50 boys of good German families chosen by competitive examination from nearly 2,000 candidates, were sitting at forms in a cramped 'tween-decks classroom studying the Theory of Navigation. Scratching their heads they puzzled problems of Greenwich Mean Time...
...Therese Russ swung round and made for the spot under full steam, swinging out lifeboats as she went. When they reached the spot every man but the cook and the captain went over the side to help in the rescue. Wireless messages sent speedboats from Kiel and the cruisers Koeln and Koenigsberg. There was little they could do. Only 40 men of the Niobe's crew of over 100 were rescued, some of whom swam about the sea for hours. Six cadets managed to fight their way clear of the swamped classroom. The rest were carried down with...