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Word: flumendosa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1956-1956
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Usage:

...peasants in 15-acre plots. By draining the old malarial swamps, the agencies are making another 185,000 acres of cropland for small holders. But the most ambitious project by far is a $75 million complex of three dams being built to catch floodwaters which race seasonally down the Flumendosa, Sardinia's most important river, and are lost in coastal lagoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Hope in Sardinia | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...herding (or stealing) sheep in the mountains by winter, hoeing a few acres in summer in the lowlands. After 20 centuries, Sardinia may once again win a name as Rome's granary. Already the fund's crewcut, sports-jacketed young Italian engineers are saying that after the Flumendosa Valley is remade, underpopulated Sardinia may be able to absorb thousands of Italy's mainland unemployed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Hope in Sardinia | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

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