Word: il
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...budget, Il Duce boldly ordered the then Finance Minister, Antonio Mosconi, to state last June that "for the present and during the economic crisis the Government cannot balance the budget." The Cabinet has released a provisional budget for this year carrying an estimated deficit of 3,087,500,000 lire...
...opened some 950,000 Italians were unemployed, but Il Duce's program of public works continues on a nationwide scale, new jobs are being constantly created and the State's direct dole expenditure was kept down to just under $1,000,000 last year...
...Simplified, strengthened, deflated and purified," Il Duce said, "Italian business holds itself ready to withstand yet further trials." The withstanding machinery consists in part of decrees protecting the worker from either wage cuts or upping of retail prices, except in specific cases by assent of the State. Italian farm prices have thus far been supported by import quota restrictions. Tuberculin tests are invoked to exclude much foreign cattle. The Fascist Press ceaselessly thunders, "Buy Italian!" Speculation on Italian stock exchanges is now checked with such rigor that prices and trading have long been stagnant...
...metal trades have proved intractable. Creatures whom Il Duce considers "socalled business men" have exceeded metal quotas approved by the State in speculative efforts to cut each other's throats. The silk trade, on the other hand, reached a pass of despair last year in which honest worm raisers began to burn their mulberry trees. The State stopped that with a bounty of one lira per kilogram of cocoons, but the silk, metal and several other trades must be thoroughly overhauled. Such jobs take money. Hence last week the $50,000,000 loan...
Recalling that he is fiercely opposed to human birth control, critics of Il Duce have asked how he justifies his "pruning" of industries which are yet alive though judged by the State unworthy. Hotly convinced that his policy is neither business, birth control nor nationalization, the Dictator explains that he is directing Italian business "towards a system which respects the principle of private property and individual enterprise, but desires to see them brought within the purview of the State which alone can safeguard, supervise and vivify...