Word: fungoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ammunition works in Colleferro. south of Rome. Management feared Communist gains because 800 men had just been laid off. The Colleferro plant is Italy's biggest ammunition supplier; about 18% of its business is in offshore orders. In last week's election, the Communist vote (once a fungoid 68% ) dropped from 30% to 23.8%. At the same time, the vote for the rival non-Communist federation, the CISL, leaped from 53% to a very heartening 65.9%. Said one of Colleferro's directors: "To our notion, this election shows that the U.S. Embassy policy is right...