Word: littoria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy, the black market took on an official tone. When he asked the customs inspector at the Littoria airport to exchange dollars, the inspector regretted that he could give only the official exchange of 220 lire. But he pointed to a bus driver who would give 500. By haggling in Rome the adman...
Last week Mrs. Mills heard startling news about frail Jimmy: in Italy, 21-year-old Private James H. Mills of the infantry had won the Congressional Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry during his first encounter with the enemy. Last May, near Cisterna de Littoria, he had knocked out two Nazi machine-gun nests singlehanded by killing four Germans (with five shots) and capturing seven more. Then he had repeatedly set himself up as a decoy target while his platoon surrounded an enemy strong point and captured 22 prisoners without suffering a casualty...
...Littoria (Italian parent of Lati air line from Rome to Rio de Janeiro...