Word: fontana
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...jubilant crowd poured from the high school into Fontana Square, scarcely 50 yards from the U.S. embassy, greyclad Republican Guards on horseback charged with flashing sabers. Shots rang out; stones were flung; 50 people were injured. In Delgado's lusty campaigning last week. Portugal saw more mob violence and bloodshed than in all the previous 25 years of the paternal dictatorship of scholarly Premier Antonio de Oliveira Salazar...
...carried through the aisles in his shoulder-borne chair (they disappeared before the apostolic benediction). And for the first time women's fashions received smiles rather than censure from the Vatican. In receiving some 200 designers, models, salesgirls and seamstresses of Rome's top high-fashion house, Fontana, Pius XII talked a language understood from Rome's Via Condotti to Manhattan's Fifth Avenue in commenting on one of Fontana's sidelines (making austere black dresses for foreigners to wear at papal audiences). "We are glad," said the Pope, "that we, too, bring you some...
...Rome, the Vatican looked with distaste at another kind of fashion problem: the adaptation of a cardinal's dress, complete with chain, pectoral cross and red biretta, as part of the line of Fontana Sisters, topflight Roman couturieres. "The frantic search for novelties," declared an official Vatican spokesman, "has deprived fashion in general, and Italian fashion in particular, of its artistic requirements. This frivolous imitation of a cardinal's attire is simply grotesque...
...From his Fontana (Calif.) plant, Henry J. Kaiser supplies the West Coast with more steel than any other steelmaker. Since he built the plant during World War II, he has expanded it seven times to keep up with a fast-growing demand. Last week Kaiser announced that he will spend $113 million to boost capacity 40% to 1,528,000 tons yearly...
...Fontana's addition is only a small part of Kaiser Industries' vast expansion under Henry J. and his son, President Edgar F. Kaiser, 47. Edgar is also directing a $33 million expansion for Permanente Cement and a $500 million expansion for Kaiser Aluminum which will push it up to second place in the industry, 28% behind Alcoa...