Word: fiats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night last week prosperous Nino Cottone, 52, returning home late, gently backed his little Fiat station wagon into the drive of his summer villa. He had just locked the car when he was bowled along the driveway by two streams of machine-gun bullets. As his family and friends poured out of their houses, Nino painfully lifted up his bullet-ridden body and stumbled to the threshold of his villa, where, leaning against the door, he died on his feet as a good Sicilian should...
ITALIAN AUTO BOOM pushed record first-half '56 production 15% ahead of last year, 30% over '54. Fiat leads the way, finds that its baby "600" is gaining favor even in Volkswagen Germany...
...this new mass market, old distinctions between luxuries and necessities have a way of disappearing fast, and yesterday's luxury becomes today's need. Thus, one day in January 1950, by federal fiat, the TV set was suddenly transformed in effect from luxury to necessity. This happened when the Bureau of Labor Statistics decided that TV sets belonged on the list of the hundreds of items it uses to compile its cost-of-living index. Three years later, by BLS "decree," automatic laundry service and biscuit mix also became necessities. It is easily conceivable that in time...
...when the first question shot at him raised the Stassen issue, Ike was unruffled and ready with his thinking about the affair. His central point: the second man on the ticket, like the presidential candidate himself, must be chosen by the delegates at open convention and not by Eisenhower fiat. Until then, everyone has the right to express his preferences as he chooses...
...shares to 300,000 before the strike. Although Italian industry is humming at record pitch, the value of stocks listed on the Milan board has been sliced one-third (to 2 trillion lire) since the tax measure was passed by the Chamber of Deputies last December; blue-chip Fiat stock, for example, skidded from 1,845 lire to 1,083 when the strike started...