Word: coronas
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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...
...hosiery, Prophylactic tooth brushes, United Fruit Co. bananas. From the Barton, Durstine-Osborne quota comes Alexander Hamilton correspondence school; Atwater Kent radios, Cluett Peabody Arrow Collars; Dorothy Gray toilet preparations; General Electric Co. products; General Motors (institutional-not the individual cars); Gillette razors; Oshkosh trunks; L. C. Smith and Corona typewriters; Triplex safety glass; Standard Oil Co. of New York...
...smart bookselling racket conceived by Nelson Doubleday, smart son of a smart father. As an advertisement, he mails to club members or prospective members a pink sheet of mystery-story news luridly modeled after the gumchewer dailies. But it is mailed to no gumchewers; rather to portly smokers of Corona Coronas−bank presidents, railway magnates, lawyers, Senators, and even a presidential candidate. Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt were notoriously addicted to mystery stories; so also Dwight Morrow, Stanley Baldwin, Arthur Hadley, Herbert Hoover...
...also wrote the libretto. Then came the Russian revolutions. His St. Petersburg became Petrograd, Leningrad. He hustled to New York (1920). In Manhattan he founded the Master Institute of United Arts, "uniting all the arts and giving to young America the spirit of creation." He founded another institution-Corona Mundi (Crown of the World), International Art Center, to take pictures (his own mostly) "directly to the people." New U. S. friends organized for him the Roerich Museum to hold his swift paintings. That museum now has about 750 of his 3,000 works. Other productions are in the Louvre, Luxembourg...
...retains rights of intervention and maintains a naval base at Guantanamo Bay (see MAP). Population 75% white. A 700-mile highway, bisecting Cuba, is now building by 5,000 men. Havana a superb metropolis: palaces, plazas, colonnades, tropical parks. Cigars exported annually 90,000,000. Best Corona Coronas come from the region of Vuelta Abajo in western Cuba...