Word: ginori
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...Contessa Bianca Cavazza, president of the women's committee of the Florentine Red Cross, with a plan: Why not stage a huge public exhibition for the benefit of the Red Cross? The journalist and the contessa started making the rounds, and one by one the Corsini, the Ginori, the Serristori, the Antinori, the Pucci and the rest agreed that for a few days they would do without the precious possessions so long hidden behind the thick grey walls of their palazzi...
Synthetic Italy. There was Prince Piero Ginori Conti of Italy, who described the taming of waterfalls and hot volcanic springs in the Apennines to produce the power to make the electricity that now supplies Italy with acetic acid without apples (vinegar); wood alcohol from coal instead of trees; camphor, ammonia, formaldehyde, artificial silk for black shirts, from their chemical constituents...
...country. Jets called soffioni from boiling pools have been harnessed by sinking iron tubes to a depth of from 200 to 500 feet. At the surface the steam has a pressure of two atmospheres, and there is evidence of enormous untapped supplies. The system is the idea of Prince Ginori Conti, engineer...