Word: italia
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...Nash President George Mason, American will continue to make both types of cars in separate divisions, and also bring out a pair of brand-new designs to boost sales -a small Nash four-passenger sports car, to list at about $1,300, and a Hudson sports-type car, the Italia, that will probably sell for around...
...first Kungsholm, originally leased for a year from the Holland-American Line, was scrapped in 1929 by HAL. The second Kungsholm, built in 1928, became famed as a cruise ship in the 19303, was taken over by the U.S. in late 1941 and converted into a troopship. Renamed the Italia, she is now owned by Italy's Home Lines, Inc., and operates on a North Atlantic...
...like so many U.S. critics, the Italian reviewers were tough. Wrote Il Messaggero: "Overloaded, slow, cold, sometimes even annoying, without that alacrity, that concentration, that surprise, that stimulus . . ." Giornale d'Italia: "Artificial characters . . . commonplace grandiosity ..." Il Tempo: "[Quo Vadis] leaves the Italian public disturbed and perplexed. We have studied Rome and the Romans in school, and every day along our streets we meet their memories in stone. It cannot give us pleasure to see them camouflaged as clowns, or, to put the best light on it, as cowboys...
...Eritrea's capital, Asmara, from which Mussolini launched his 1935 attack on Haile Selassie, red, yellow and green striped Ethiopian flags broke out. Barelegged, open-sandaled Ethiopian troops swung smartly up the broad Corso Italia, replacing the departed British Tommies, who had held the land in trust for eleven years...
...fight to get better wages fc Filipino workers, Jesuit Father Walter I Hogan, Manila's "labor priest," has mad himself some formidable enemies (TIMI March 12, 1951). But he has had the COE consistent support of Papal Nuncio Egidi Vagnozzi, a brisk, 46-year-old Italia whose plain speaking long ago got him th nickname of "II Americano" in Vatica circles. Since his arrival 2½-years ago Archbishop Vagnozzi has given heavy be hind-the-scenes support to the efforts of Roman Catholics like Philadelphian He gan to give Filipinos a fresh deal before the Communists...