Word: savoia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Singers, politicians, Bankers Otto Kahn and Winthrop Aldrich and other personages at whom reporters usually rush when a ship enters New York Harbor, last week received skimpy attention at the arrival of the Conte di Savoia. The ship reporters rushed for Patrician Guglielmo Marconi, Nobel Laureate, Italian Senator and Marquis, inventor of commercial wireless, experimenter with ultra-shortwave radio communication. The reporters wanted to know all about Senator Marconi's latest work in "bending" short waves around the earth's curvature (TIME...
...maiden voyage in 1930. Shipping speed experts, who have always believed that the German ships have knots in reserve, expect them to beat the Rex's record of last week, expect the Germans eventually to be beaten again by the Rex's sister ship the Conte di Savoia which is supposed to have still more reserve speed...
...Italian women is the chief function of the women's section of the Fascist Party, the Fasci Femminili (Women's Groups). Its presidency is Italy's top political job for women. Last week Mussolini gave the Fasci Femminili a new president: Countess Bianca Pio di Savoia...
...ships, cream of 96 tested for the expedition, are Savoia-Marchetti S-55 hydroplanos* similar to those of the South Atlantic flight, great twin-hulled affairs with the pilots' compartment housed in a bridge between the hulls. Mounted above the bridge are two Isotta-Fraschini engines in tandem, each driving with 800 h.p. a three-bladed propeller. Cruising speed: 137 m.p.h. Cruising range...
When Captain Antonio Lena took the Italian Line's S. S. Conte di Savoia out of Genoa harbor last week, he wanted two things. One was to beat the average speed record for a transatlantic crossing: 27.9 knots, set by North German Lloyd's Europa in 1930. The second was to beat the Conte di Savoia's own record of six days and twelve hours from Genoa to Ambrose Channel Lightship. Five days and 20 hours later Captain Lena was a happy man. His long, lean, white ship had averaged only 27.4 knots from Genoa...