Word: catania
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most interesting thing about this place is its owner, Lou Catania. A poor-but-honest spaghetti-puller from the old country? Not on your life. He barbered his way through the (U.S.) depression, marrying the boss's daughter. Aften ten years as a railroad brakeman, he surrendered to hay fever (dust in the baggage car) and founded a chain of pizza parlors around Boston and the Cape. "Leaning Tower of Pizza," that inspired pun, brought him national interest and the attentions of a large noodle concern. The Prince Spaghetti Company settled on Tower like a great leaking blimp...
With her honor so clearly restored, even Enzo d'Agostino felt in a forgiving mood. In the chapel of Catania's prison he married her, then went home to wait for her release from jail. It might not be long; so moved was all Italy by Vincenzina's story last week that President Giovanni Gronchi was reportedly about to pardon...
Last week, in the new Catania industrial zone, a $4,000,000 steel fabricating plant went into operation. Nearby, close to Messina, work started on a $5,000,000 plant to .produce frozen orange juice. At Augusta, a ghost port barely five years ago, a third major project was completed, a multimillion-dollar oil refinery with a capacity of 2,800,000 tons annually and new docks for 45,000-ton oil tankers. At Enna, in Sicily's depressed interior, Milan Edison was putting the finishing touches on a $16 million chemical plant. All told, since 1948 nearly...
Last week's 2O-year, 4¾% World Bank loan (in which the Bank of America has a $5,000,000 share) will finance a $20 million irrigation project to triple the annual value of the Catania Plain's agricultural production by 1967 and create 10,000 new farm jobs in the immediate area. Another $30 million will build eight power projects to increase southern Italy's electric generating capacity by one-sixth; the remaining $20 million will help private investors finance seven new factories (fertilizer, fruit processing, cement, chemicals and medicines, pulp and paper, woolens). Said...
...Valle Pega had been drained away, the official archaeologists attacked the newfound diggings. It was a sloppy job, but by using pumps and sheet-metal cofferdams, they reached the deep tombs that the Comacchiesi had missed. Guided by Professor Paolo Enrico Arias of the Uni versity of Catania (who wears a beret and looks, except for his red rubber boots, like a movie director of the Keystone Cop period), the laborers extracted a stream of beautiful things dating from the time when Rome was young. One tomb contained the skeleton of a young Etruscan woman with a necklace of Baltic...