Word: montecatini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Primary Turin targets were the Royal Arsenal, the Fiat truck and plane plants, the Caproni bomber factory, the Montecatini chemical works. Observers reported that a great pall of smoke lay over the city. At one point flames from a factory shot up 8,000 feet in the air like the plume of a live volcano...
...complacency with which they entered war against Britain. Greatest shock has been the sell-out of all the fine-sounding ideals with which Benito Mussolini once used to charm his people. The most powerful men in the country are the great industrialists who run the Fiat (autos, armaments), Montecatini (mining and chemicals) and Snia Viscosa (ersatz textiles) monopolies. Along with them has been created a new class of wealthy men in high Government office. Italian peasants, remembering Mussolini's attacks on Democratic plutocrats (men who grew powerful through wealth) have coined a new phrase for the wartime wealthy: "Cratoplutes...