Word: carrara
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Guido Murray Fabbricotti (Commendatore della Corona d'Ttalia, Centauro of the Carrara Fascist Patrol, ex-British citizen) is today's reigning marble tycoon. To his sister is married his first cousin, Carlo Andrea Fabbricotti, ex-officer of the Italian Navy, ex-officer of the Italian Army, ex-Italian Ambassador to the Romanov court of St. Petersburg. These two men, kinsmen and rivals, carry on the 500-year Fabbricotti tradition...
Toward New York, last week, plowed the black Italian freighter Tagliamento, laden with a cargo of white Carrara marble. In the yards of C. D. Jackson Co., Manhattan stone importers, marblemen waited its arrival. For nine months, not a shipload of Carrara had left Italy. What was once the bread-and-butter of all marbles had become a U. S. rarity...
Marblemen explained: U. S. architects and builders, seeking magnificence, have turned from the useful, plebeian Carrara to the red Levanto, the green Tinos, to the monotones Botticina and Hauteville. Year by year, Carrara has fallen deeper into decorative disrepute, has been relegated to bathrooms, has disappeared from the yards of the importers. And last winter, patriot Fascists jumped the price of Carrara to prohibitive heights. U. S. importers protested, cancelled all orders...
...centuries, marble and Carrara have been synonymous in the hills of Italy's Tuscany. Synonymous, too, have been Carrara and Fabbricotti. For of all the families who have hacked and hewed in the quarries of Carrara, the family of the Fabbricotti is oldest and greatest. When the two chiefs of the Fabbricotti-Guido Murray and Carlo Andrea-ride on horseback to their deep pits in the hills, they may reflect that their ancestors have ridden in just such a way, to the same pits, for some 500 years. It was in the 15th century that the head...
Fortunately the Carrara precipice overhangs blue Mediterranean wavelets. A ship can carry what a railway car cannot. And from the Mediterranean a ship, not too big, may ascend the River Tiber, even to Eternal Rome...