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Word: fiorito (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...CinemaScope and Vista-Vision, a walnut-paneled conference room with a large pear-shaped table, an executives' dining room with television and canned music, a coffee room, private shower baths for top officials, wood-paneled offices for all bigwigs. There were oil paintings, lobbies walled in Aurisina Fiorito marble, ashtrays costing $7.50 apiece on the conference tables, and bronze boxes for outgoing mail ($17.50 apiece) on the executives' handcrafted desks. Cost: $5,000,000, paid in cash out of the teamsters' $35 million treasury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Union Suites | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

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