Word: italianization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italian news organs told excitedly last week of an earthquake in Albania (just across the Adriatic) said to have destroyed half the city of Durazzo and killed 1,000 persons...
...dusk descended the Hercules coasted down through a light mist at Marseille, just beyond the Western extremity of the French Riviera, Next day, amid perfect weather, they flew East and South along the entire French and Italian Riviera to Naples-averaging 93½ miles an hour. As morning dawned again the Hercules bellowed up through a driving rain to the clear skies above and flew 350 miles over sea to the British Island of Malta...
From Malta the Air Knight and Lady continued across the Mediterranean to Italian Tripoli upon the Afric shore. Thence across Libya to Egypt and Cairo, where Lady Maud donned her afternoon dress for tea at Shepherds Hotel. Next day the Hercules soared over the Holy Land, descending at Ziza in Palestine. Thence the 543-mile flight to Bagdad was taken in a single jump. Persia and "the road that leadeth to Isphan" loomed...
...smitten France during the past month, thus still further hurting Riviera tourist trade. Twenty persons died of the cold in France last week, when the thermometer fell to 14° above zero in several cities.† Moreover, Signor Mussolini has lured many tourists from the French to the Italian Riviera by " cutting down Italian tourist taxes while those in France remain high. Finally the doubling of the gold value of the franc in five months (TIME, July 26) has scared away still more tourists and produced a serious fiscal crisis...
Last week the New York World glibly assigned a dramatic raison d'être to this rift in the Fascist lute. One John Lucas, who, from France or Switzerland, dashes off most of the World's alleged scoops of Italian news cabled...