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Eritrea, as Italians are proud to recall, is the first colony of any consequence which their young kingdom wrested from Abyssinia (in 1889 when the Kingdom of Italy was only 28 years old). Last week with all her pennants flying the royal yacht Savoia steamed into Massawa, a hot spot on the Red Sea even hotter than famed Aden...
...tons), the Rex tore over her 600-mi. course at an average speed of 28 knots, became unofficially "the world's fastest liner."* At times her 125,,000 h. p. turbines drove her bulb-stemmed hull 29 knots. With her smaller sister the S. S. Conte di Savoia, she is Il Duce's supreme bid for traffic over the longer, warmer, and some say smoother southern route. When the Rex ploughs up New York Harbor seven days out of Naples on her maiden voyage in October, she will have sliced two full days from the southern run. With...
...look almost exactly alike, cut their beards identically, wear exactly the same model of starched collar. Every North American knows Foreign Minister Dino Grandi since he called on President Hoover (TIME, Nov. 16, et seq.) Every South American knows Air Minister General Italo Balbo since he led eleven Savoia-Marchetti seaplanes on a flight across the Atlantic from Italy to Brazil (TIME...
Barter. Last week General Italo Balbo's squadron of transatlantic seaplanes (TIME, Jan. 19) flew on from Natal to Rio de Janeiro, whence it was reported that the eleven Savoia-Marchetti ships would be delivered to the Brazilian Government in exchange for $618,420 worth of coffee...
...darkness "black as the shirts of the pilots," General Italo Balbo's squadron of twelve great Savoia-Marchetti seaplanes roared along the water off Bolama, west coast of Africa, to take-off for Brazil (TIME, Jan. 5). The first group of three black-winged ships, led by the General himself, vanished into the night, followed by a green-winged triad. Next came the red wings, but the third plane of that group faltered under its 10,000-lb. load, nosed down into the sea, killed its mechanic. The last triad, white-winged, was in the air ten minutes when...