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...dismal night in Milan, Italy, the secret agent who wrote these anonymous reminiscences was haled into an office of the Questura (police) and left alone for two or three hours in the stench of moldy paper and urine characteristic of Italian police stations. Then he was told that he was guilty of high treason and would be shot in the morning. S. K. could not commit suicide, because the police had discovered where he kept his granule of cyanide, and took it away from him. How he got out of that one proved to be a turning point...
...Jobs. He went first to Milan, hunted up his old boss, Commendatore Luigi Venturi, general manager and chief owner of the Seta Co., and head of the Fascist federation of silk factories. Said Venturi: "You have nothing to fear here. We're not barbarians like your Nazis." He gave S. K. a part-time job with Seta...
...heats it in the fuselage, ejects it through the tail-a rocketlike principle, though it is not a real rocket plane, since the propelling jet is not a rush of gases supplied by combustion of the fuel. Campini's plane weighs 11,000 lb., recently flew from Milan to Rome (300 miles) in 2¼ hours. Average speed was only 130 m.p.h., but the plane is a pioneer venture...
...Running across the 28,000-acre plant and depot grounds are 195 miles of 16-foot, blacktop asphalt road, already cracking. Cost: $29,000 a mile; the average concrete road would have cost under $25,000. Two parallel roads lie only 75 feet apart, one on the Milan project, the other on the Wolf Creek project. Snorted Senator Truman: $149,000 wasted...
...full-loading traffic on which any railroad should make money. Then came defense. Since 1939 at least 130 new industries have camped at L. & N.'s roadside. These include giants like TVA's Godwin, Tenn. phosphate plant (4,800 carloads annually), the Wolf Creek ordnance plant at Milan, Tenn. Moreover, L. & N. now hauls soldiers, food and equipment directly to twelve Army camps and nine air bases, indirectly to many more...