Word: flumendosa
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...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...
...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...
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