Word: milan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Milan, Signer Giulio Gatti-Casazza, a marine engineer by profession, had taken hold of La Seal a Opera House in a time when that historic institution was in a bad situation, in a couple of years had rehabilitated it in an extraordinary manner, had brought a regime of order and economy, at the same time had increased the quality of performances immensely. Here was the obvious man for the internationally minded Directors of the Metropolitan. Many of their customers thought that they should have patriotically selected an American, but they seemed of the opinion that it was better to save...
...electricity. He made many tests and experiments in the first electrical station in the United States, the Pearl Street Station in New York city, supplying current for incandescent lighting and power from an undergound system. This system he has installed in many cities in the country and also in Milan, Italy, for the Italian Edison Company. He is now back in New York as vice-president of the New York Edison Company and president of the Electrical Testing Laboratories. He was decorated by the King of Italy and made a Knight Commander, Order of the Crown of Italy...
...stopped. It was a very good voice. She sought out the youth and told him he must become great. She interested other well placed folk in her find. Funds were raised to enable Antonio to study in Italy. A fortnight ago he sailed to enroll in the Conservatory at Milan...
...months, yet when it came it had the appearance of rising like a wind in the night. Originating in Barcelona, under the leadership of the redoubtable General Primo Rivera, the revolution is an almost exact analogy to the Fascist revolution of last year in Italy, which started in Milan; both these places are chief industrial centers, where the doctrines of socialism and communism were most securely rooted. It appears that all good Spaniards went to bed one night only to awaken next morning to find that a revolution had taken place, apparently without resistance and without bloodshed. Everyone accepted...
...that she cannot afford to allow her rights in Fiume to be abandoned to the master of the black-shirted legions, who first scowls at Greeks and Slavs from his massive desk at the Palazzo Chigi, and then, to show his sangfroid, dashes off to the motor races at Milan...