Word: il
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stranger to many otherwise well posted citizens of the world is the new Benito Mussolini, the Duce who has taken to digesting balance sheets, mastering trade statistics, engineering huge combinations of Italian industry and grappling intelligently with the octopus of hard times. Last week, without turning to foreign bankers, Il Duce floated a new $50,000,000 loan entirely in Italy, kept the lira still at par, surveyed the foreign bond market on which Italian issues remained strong and perhaps congratulated himself...
...years have grown leaner. "Our economic life must be simplified!" he announced in 1931. Since then he has simplified with a vengeance. Not to mention Italy's shipping lines which most people know have been merged into one vast monopoly with bonds guaranteed by the State, Il Duce has dynamically simplified the steel, iron, milling, textile, silk, rayon and other trades into a constellation of unified industries whose sun is the Dictator. With the Kingdom's foreign trade shrunk by Depression to approximately half its volume of three years ago, the State is able to present current statistics...
...were furious. Rumania lately turned down a proposal by Benito Mussolini that she sign a treaty pledging assistance to Italy in case of a war with Jugoslavia. From Italy's standpoint the Rumanian Government, by consenting to a Jugoslavian state visit, was offering a rebuff to Italy, putting Il Duce's political nose out of joint...
...Precisely the same power that Mussolini exercised after his March on Rome!" chirped cheeky Adolf. (One scowling bust of Il Duce, two portraits of Frederick the Great adorn Herr Hitler's office...
...sieu le Ministre! S'il vous plâit. What disposition shall I make of the gold which is ready pour les Etats-Unis...