Word: industria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snia Viscosa (Societa Nazionale Industria Applicazioni Viscosa) is one of the world's great makers of synthetic fibres, employs 14,000 workers in 16 factories scattered over Italy. Long a rayon producer, Snia Viscosa also markets Snia-fiocco, fibre made from wood pulp (TIME, Nov. 5, 1934). Snia Viscosa's newest concoction is fibre made from milk, which it calls lanital and claims is equal in appearance and quality to wool. Princess Caetani calls herself lanital's "social representative" in the U. S. A familiar milk product is casein, of which in the U. S, alone...
...Workers, had good reason to cheer. A 3,250-page, nine-volume decision in their favor was handed down by a special commission named by the Board of Arbitration to investigate Mexico's oil industry. It aimed to settle the long-simmering dispute between the Sindicator de la Industria Petrolera, employers' syndicate, and the 18,000 oil workers...
...instinctive mixer. Mornings he may be found in the patio of the Hotel Sevilla-Biltmore, habitually hatless, armed with a malacca stick, buttonholing or being buttonholed by this statesman, that sportsman. Afternoons find him on the sands of La Playa beach; midnight, in the two-story structure at Industria 77, erstwhile Casa Publica, now the plant of the Post and Telegram...