Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many oil experts it seemed likely that Libya had been motivated by E.N.I.'s relative lack of capital, its undistinguished record in finding oil in Italy, and the understandable reluctance of a former Italian colony to admit an Italian government corporation to its territory. Enrico Mattei had a simpler explanation: unfair pressure on the Libyan government by U.S. oil companies...
Mattei set out to harry the major U.S. and British oil companies with every means at his disposal. He tried unsuccessfully to drive foreign oil firms from semi-autonomous Sicily, succeeded, through his influence over the Italian Parliament, in getting them excluded from Italy's promising Po Valley. Then, in a far more ambitious challenge, he began to move into the Middle East, offering Arab governments terms seemingly more generous than the standard fifty-fifty split negotiated by British and American companies. Under one such agreement, an E.N.I, subsidiary is now producing some 600,000 metric tons...
...well-known Italian historian will be a visiting lecturer at the University next semester, Myron P. Gilmore, chairman of the History Department, announced yesterday...
Georgio Spini, professor at the University of Messina in Sicily will lecture in History 152a, the History of the Italian Risorgimento, and History 252, a graduate seminar on the same subject. The courses will cover the rise of the Italian state from the Sixteenth Century to the mid-Nineteenth Century...
While at the University, Spini will occupy the Lauro de Vosis Lectureship in the History of Italian Civilization. In addition to his interest in Italian history, he also specializes in the history of the United States during the Nineteenth Century...