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Just outside the gateway to Milan's 33rd annual fair last week, an enormous yellow sign bore the proud legend: "1945-1955-ten years of work for a free and respected fatherland.' Inside, at the biggest industrial fair in Italian history, were the results of Italy's postwar labors, helped by some $3 billion in U.S. funds. Stretching over 100 acres were futuristic exhibit halls and brightly painted booths of 9,400 Italian firms-and 4,000 foreign companies that wanted to sell in Italy's expanding markets. In the two weeks of the fair, some...
...display at Milan was everything from toothpaste to refrigerators, caffè espresso vending machines, jet engines and a diesel locomotive. One big hall was filled with several dozen kinds of motor scooters and motorcycles; other halls displayed delicate glassware and pottery, tractors, sail-and motorboats, house trailers. The Montecatini chemical company showed off its insecticides, fertilizers and aluminum products in an elaborate pavilion decorated with immense papier-machéå insects and lacy scaffoldings festooned with sunbursts of aluminum chairs and kitchen utensils
Help from the South. The Milan fair was an accurate reflection of Italy's growing boom. Gross national product jumped by 5% last, year, even though drought lopped 2 billion tons from the normal 9 billion ton wheat harvest; industrial production was up nearly 10%. Crude-steel production topped 4,000,000 tons and auto production increased to 215,000 cars and trucks, both alltime records. An important new oilfield has been tapped on the Adriatic coast, while Sicily's Ragusa field (TIME, Jan. 25, 1954) has four producing wells, with a fifth...
Fiats for Families. For Italy's industrial workers the rising production meant a wage increase of 3.5% last year. Unemployment is almost nonexistent in the heavy industries of Milan and Turin, with an actual shortage of skilled labor in the building trades. In many families, three or more people are working full time, enabling them to put money aside for that dream of dreams-a car. At the Fiat factory alone, more than 1,000 workmen are on the waiting list to buy their company's new, $950 Fiat...
...result, Italy's Communists have been steadily losing ground in their attempts to win over the workingman. In some two dozen northern industrial plants, union control has passed out of Communist hands. Last week at Falck Steel's Milan .plants, the Reds were decisively beaten again in plant elections, saw their vote plummet from 72% last year to a minority...