Word: ltalia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome the exuberant Giornale d'ltalia crowed...
Bellwether of the Italian Press is Benito Mussolini's Popolo d'ltalia, house organ of Fascismo. Behind it trail a flock of "semiofficial" newspapers, potent among which is conservative La Stampa, published in Turin by the man who builds four of every five automobiles in Italy, Senator Giovanni Agnelli. Proud old Senator Agnelli takes his journalism as seriously as he takes his Fiat automobiles...
...annual 500-mile automobile race at the Indianapolis Speedway is a joyride compared to a race like the Gran Premio d'ltalia at Monza, the purpose of which is to test handling ability, brakes, acceleration, by means of curves. This year officials removed the famed Lesmo curve, which each year has claimed one or more victims, altered the course to include ten right-angle curves, reversed the direction of the race which, like all others in Europe, had always been clockwise...
...spent for "quality rather than quantity" in fighting planes. Explained the Foreign Office: "Germany is rearming." Germany. The League of Nations made public an official memorandum from Germany to France, dated Dec. 18, 1933 in which Germany disclosed her intention to "rearm in moderation." Italy. The Glornale d'ltalia hinted at construction of a 25,000-ton ship to match France's 26,500-ton Dunkerque now in construction. Japan. Minister of the Navy Mineo Osumi announced that passage of the Naval bill in the U. S. made it necessary for Japan to build more fighting ships, confirmed...
Manhattan was overbuilt long before the Rockefellers broke ground for their city-within-a-city. With such notable exceptions as their British Empire Building, Palazzo d'ltalia and La Maison Frangaise their office space could be populated only by inducing tenants to move from Manhattan's other tall towers. The zeal of the Rockefeller renting agents became proverbial. But not until last week did any real estate man publicly voice his opinion of the Rockefeller methods. Then the opinion came from a capitalist who is almost as old as John D. Sr., and almost as philanthropic, who also...