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Word: costanza (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days, to Nice, six and a half. In actual traveling time the octopi of Naples' famed Aquarium will be but one junket day farther from Manhattan than the Ritz Bar in Paris. Though head of no line, the driving force behind Italian shipping is short, bull-necked Count Costanza Ciano. Mussolini's closest associate. His son wed Mussolini's daughter Edda. Into Count Ciano's stout fists, Mussolini put the post office, the telegraph, all the railroads and last year all the shipping, of Italy. It was Count Ciano who arranged the mergers of Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: II Duce's Ships | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

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