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...headquarters in the Hotel National facing Red Square. Almost two years were to pass before two synthetic fiber plants worth $40 million were ordered through his services from Chatillon in Italy. Then things started picking up with contracts for six 50,000-ton tankers for Savoretti's client Ansaldo, followed by others and culminating in the Fiat deal, the largest the Soviets ever made with a Western firm...
Manuelli is accustomed to political pressures. Rising through various state-run companies, he was picked by the first postwar Italian government in 1945 to head the Ansaldo shipyards, immediately became a target for Communist gunmen who had secreted an arsenal there in preparation for a general uprising. Manuelli cleaned out Ansaldo, but had to go around with a revolver in his pocket and with two "escorts" carrying tommy guns. Since he took charge of Finsider in 1958, its sales have risen 45% to last year's $761 million, and production has gone up 55% to 5,100,000 tons...
Only eleven days after the Andrea Doria sank off Nantucket two years ago, the state-controlled Italian Line decided to commission Genoa's great Ansaldo shipyards to build a replacement. This week the Dona's nearly completed successor, the $30 million Leonardo da Vinci, slid down the ways...
Like the Doria and her sister postwar ship from the Ansaldo yards, the Cristoforo Colombo, the Leonardo upholds the Italian reputation for style and tourist catching comfort, from her rakishly angled superstructure to her 536 cabins equipped with individually controlled air conditioning and infra-red heat, and her retractable stabilizer fins for smoother steaming in rough weather. Planned for 1,300 passengers, compared to the Doria's 1,290, the Leonardo at 32,000 tons and 760 ft. is 10% heavier and longer. The extra weight is accounted for by safety precautions, including additional compartmenting of the hull...
Last week an anonymous tip sent the police into Genoa's big Ansaldo shipyards, which they had searched unsuccessfully before. This time they came upon the biggest prize yet. Under a staircase behind a false wall was an underground cavern, and in it were 15 tons of war materiel (including one mountain cannon, 22 heavy machine guns, cases of antitank grenades and time bombs). The passage led to the sea. Police figured the party planned to distribute the arms by boat. On the cavern's wall was the slogan: "These are the weapons of peace...