Word: italia
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...great risorgimento that threw out the alien rulers and made the Italians a nation used Verdi as its symbolic pun-a tribute to Italy's greatest composer and a proud abbreviation for the name and title of its King, "Vittorio Emanuele, Re è d'Italia...
...rose big, suave Prince Nicolo Pignatelli Aragona, president of Gulf's subsidiary, Gulf Italia, and tidied up the facts. "Although constantly being attacked," he said, "private enterprise is the most powerful instrument for social and economic development wherever it is given a competitive chance." Since first striking Sicilian oil in 1954 at Ragusa (where ENI had tried and failed), he pointed out that Gulf has drilled 34 holes, and that 31 of them are now producing 22,000 bbl. a day-only half of eventual capacity. In contrast, ENI's subsidiary, AGIP Mineraria, has moved into Gela...
...article "Success in Sicily" contained a statement that Gulf Oil (i.e., Gulf Italia Co.) gets from its Sicilian oil-production operations 80% of all profits, instead of the standard fifty-fifty split. The truth is that Gulf Italia Co., under its concession terms established in 1954, pays to the Sicilian government a royalty of one-eighth of the gross production, plus corporate taxes (i.e., income tax and tax on the capital and on the extra profits). The combined and aggregate payment to the government of royalty and taxes brings about a fair and equitable profit sharing, which is practically equivalent...
...PIGNATELLI ARAGONA General Manager Gulf Italia Co. Rome...
...told Dulles so. French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau proposed an implied bargain: France would grant IRBM bases if the U.S. would back France in Algeria and support French ambitions to join Britain and the U.S. as NATO's third nuclear power. In Rome the semiofficial news agency Italia reported that "the Italian government does not consider granting of missile bases to NATO a necessary consequence of the international responsibilities Italy has already assumed...