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...Sahagun is the clean and prosperous home of three modern factories. One is the $32 million Diesel Nacional, Inc., managed by Italy's Fiat works and. financed half by Fiat and half by Mexicans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: The New Prosperity | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

...time on Salerno and Anzio, got him to admit: "After the fact, a man can always find a better way. The objective was won and that's what counts. I didn't come over here to criticize anybody." So saying, Harry Truman, happy tourist, climbed into his Fiat and roared toward new wonders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Roman Holiday | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

...FIAT BABY CAR, even smaller than famed Topolino, will be put on Italian market to compete with motorscooter-maker Vespa, currently at the rate of 213,487 scooters annually. The $640 Fiat will have two seats, get 55 miles to the gallon and go up to 53 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, may 14, 1956 | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...Italy's biggest industrial establishment, Turin's great Fiat works (automobiles, steel) is a sensitive testing ground of the temper of Italian labor. There last year appeared the first major crack in Communist control of the Italian workers, when the Communist-dominated labor federation, CGIL, lost the majority it had consistently polled since World War II (TIME, April 11, 1955). Could the non-Communist unions consolidate their victory this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Victory Consolidated | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

Last week, the answer was in, and it was a necessary yes. The 52,000 Fiat workers who voted (out of 80,000) gave the two free trade unions, CISL and UIL, 69.4% of their vote and 133 of the 178 seats on the trade union committee. The Communists got nine seats less than last time, though they waged an all-out campaign, led by activists carefully trained in a six-month course at Palmiro Togliatti Institute. Though the Communists labeled the free trade unions "docile to the will of il padrone (the boss),'' Fiat workers had come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Victory Consolidated | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

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