Word: americans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American influences, borne by the G.I.'s, have permeated the whole of Italy. The Rome police force travels about in a fleet of jeeps; chewing gum is in fashion; there is a coke stand on the roof of the cathedral in Milan. Coke even has a local competitor, a watery ersatz called "Presidento Cola," which comes in conical bottles...
...urchins had lots of prey. American students, lured by a dreamy conception of sunny Italy drawn from Browning, Fine Arts 11, and "The Lays of Ancient Rome," came down in swarms from France and Switzerland. In Venice, St. Mark's square looked as though all of Harvard had been transferred there for the summer term, and if you got lost in the incredible tangle of streets and canals in other parts of the city, it was a sure bot you could spot a seersucker jacket and follow it back to familiar ground...
...spite of Italy's veneer of Americanism, however, a tourist feels more an outsider there than in Franco or England. The monuments and the works of art he has come to see are completely unrelated to the realities of post-war Italy: the beggars, the unemployment, the poverty, the ruins. Many of the rivers are still spanned by U. S. army Bailey bridges set on the bombed rubble on ancient edi- fices. Inflation is particularly bad in Italy--the lira is a mere fiftieth of its prewar value. American wallets were much too small for the wads of paper money...
...monopoly problem in American business and government will be the subject of a five-year study by a group of Harvard and M.I.T. specialists, Edward S. Mason, Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, announced last night. The experts will be drawn from the fields of law, government, business and economics...
...AMERICAN CONFERENCE...