Word: lire
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italian people Tripoli was a proud name, a "jewel city." They saw logic in Mussolini's empire-mongering when Tripolitania produced olives, grapes, barley, wheat, almonds and figs for the homeland. It cost millions of lire to get production started, but the returns were in food, not, as in other of Il Duce's ventures, in crippled and dead soldiers...
...liberated areas Partisan money is circulated, and so strong is the influence of the new State among the Croat peasants that in certain areas east of Ljubjlana Italian occupation authorities cannot buy food with lire, but have to use bons issued by the Partisans. The liberated area has a radio station, audible in Switzerland, whose English-language newscasts come over in a sharp Yankee accent...
Strewn around one Italian tank were papers that belonged to Captain Aldo Corbelli. One was a month's pay slip for 3,630 lire. A handbill advertised the Italian edition of Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends and Influence People. A letter from the captain's girl, Mardella, ended "I never stop longing for you." Aldo Corlelli's body lay in the tank...
Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Harvard College Observatory, has been awarded the Pope Pius XI prize for astronomy, totaling 50,000 lire, about $2,500, according to an United Press bulletin from the Vatican City...
Entrepreneur of this quadruple play was an Italian count (who likes to be called Mr.), debonair Giovanni Naselli. Born in Manhattan 45 years ago, and hence a U.S. citizen, the count is no Fascist although he spent about ten years making rayon and lire in the Rome branch of the huge Società Generate Italiana della Viscosa, a world leader in cheap rayon manufacture. In 1933 he went to Mexico City, there started his own rayon twisting plant, Cia. Nacional de Artisela. S.A., whose 25,000 spindles now twist 60% of Mexico's rayon yarn and make...