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Nobody was going to tap old Vesuvius. But, the U.S. State Department announced, Italy is going to eke out its meager power supply with volcanic energy. A $6,000,000 new power station will be built at Lar-derello (near Leghorn), using volcanic steam to generate about 75,000 kilowatts...
...most generous people in the world, these gains were tempered by fresh evidence of the deep-rooted suspicion of the U.S. which many a European still nourishes. In the week that the first shipload of Friendship Train supplies left for Italy, and the last U.S. troops departed from Leghorn, a striking Italian worker grumbled: "American workers are capitalists compared to us. They eat the fruit and we eat the peel...
...colored and was a captain in the Fifth Army in Italy. . . . General Lee . . . took a greater interest in us (colored troops in Leghorn) than we had formerly experienced. He instituted many changes and improvements, came around to ask individual G.I.s among us how they were getting on, and in other ways treated us as American soldiers (which type of treatment it was not always our wont to receive). He was a standout...
...hour inspection of Leghorn, Italy, Columnist Robert C. Ruark had sniffed out some lively scandal, and his five-day series on abuses in Lieut. General John C. H. ("Courthouse") Lee's command had touched off a full-scale Army investigation (TIME, Aug. 25). Perhaps some of Ruark's loud charges about mistreatment of enlisted men, and about officers lolling in luxury's lap, might not stand up. But dispatches in the New York Times and in Scripps-Howard papers last week listed some "sudden improvements" in the area, indicating that General Lee had felt and yielded...
...High brass found that it really preferred to ride the trains between Viareggio and Leghorn, instead of commuting in staff cars...