Word: fiats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State assumes a virtual trade monopoly by decreeing that nonwar purchases are in every case subordinated to those fulfilling war needs. Before Dec. 31, 1937 all Italian motor vehicles must be converted to burn substitute fuels, such as coal gas distilled en route from charcoal by the Fiat system. Two days after the Cabinet meeting Italian motorists found that the price of gasoline had doubled to 87? per gal. Only cheerful sound from the Cabinet board was an announcement that "particularly abundant wheat and rice" crops ensure Italians plenty to eat this winter. Fearing possible blockades, Italian Gorgonzola shippers wired...
...assumed the absolute discretion over Italy's gold most foreigners had supposed he always possessed; shipments of munitions to Italy continued at lowest gold cash prices; the lira, after falling nearly ½? on international exchange last week, bounced back; and activity quickened furiously on Italy's bourse. Fiat motors rose from 394 lire to 401; Snia-Viscosa rayon from 401 to 410 and Montecatini mines from 188 to 193. These movements of course reflected fear by Italians that eventually the lira will be forced off the gold standard. Abroad many a headline writer splashed ITALY GOES OFF GOLD...
When the Holy Father goes motoring he has a choice among five of the 250 automobiles registered with Vatican City plates (SCV).* He owns a Dodge, a Citroën, a Fiat, a Mercedes, an Isotta-Fraschini, all gifts from pious admirers. If the Pope picks his favorite car this week for the 17-mile jaunt to the hills, he will clamber into the Dodge sedan, in which the back seat has been replaced with a large chair, slightly raised and overstuffed under red damask. In front of this is a small folding seat for the Pope's secretary...
Comrade Stalin, an Oriental who has taken root behind the Kremlin walls as secretively as any tsar, promptly chose the third alternative and gave it the force of law by his potent fiat. The present Moscow of 3,500,000 Russians squashed into 70 square miles will be expanded, Stalin decreed, into a Moscow of 5,000,000 in 230 square miles. Most of this vast reconstruction was ordered rushed to completion within three years, but seven more years are allotted to finish up and smooth out New Moscow's inevitable kinks...
...furlough. The best time in the East this season is the 21.7 made by Scallan of Cornell. In the 400 meter run, Blackman of the Polo Alto school, and McCarthy of U. S. C. have both done 47.9, and Cassin, also of the Trojans has done 48 fiat, LuValle former University of California at Los Angeles, who holds the IC4A record at 46.9 will compete this year, but is not expected to win Saturday because...