Word: falck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heavily industrialized north, executives at Falck, Italy's biggest privately owned steel company, reported that demand was outstripping production, that steel had been in a sellers' market for the past nine months. Such big motor-scooter companies as Innocenti and Vespa were rolling along at an 11,000-per-month production rate, more than double the figure two years ago; overall, the industry has produced 2,400,000 postwar scooters, and has only skimmed the top off the market...
...result, Italy's Communists have been steadily losing ground in their attempts to win over the workingman. In some two dozen northern industrial plants, union control has passed out of Communist hands. Last week at Falck Steel's Milan .plants, the Reds were decisively beaten again in plant elections, saw their vote plummet from 72% last year to a minority...
...through plant after plant, winning elections outright in some, scoring big gains in others. At Milan's Officina Meccànica (truck bodies), the Communist vote plummeted from a secure 80% last year to a minority 37%. Most significant yet was last week's vote at the Falck steel works in Sesto San Giovanni, an industrial suburb of Milan known as Italy's Little Stalingrad...