Word: mussolinis
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...clearest indications has been the transformation of IRI, a vast state-run conglomerate that dates back to Mussolini. The 1,079 firms in IRI's portfolio include Alfa Romeo, Alitalia airline and Banca Commerciale Italiana, the country's second-largest bank. While this leviathan was losing nearly $2 billion a year, previous governments had been reluctant to touch it. Craxi encouraged IRI's new president, Romano Prodi, to take bold action. He promptly laid off 47,000 unionized workers and raised more than $3 billion by selling all or part of 35 companies and other holdings...
Despite their sophistication and limitless purses, the travelers have only the vaguest idea of what makes the world work outside their bedroom doors. Fascism is on the rise in Italy, but to the myopic Americans, Mussolini seems only to be "looking after the poor, and keeping a strong government together; also, there was talk that he might sign a peace treaty within the year with the Vatican." Irma, heading back to the States, is consoled by expectations: "I am beginning to think 1929 is going to be a great year for us. There is nothing that makes me feel more...
...Fascists were victorious in Spain, and would remain so entrenched for fully 40 years. Hitler's Nuremberg laws ruled in Germany as he prepared for World War II. Mussolini made the trains run on time, but did little else that can be praised in the hindsight history affords...
...posters that are most familiar and redolent of the American $ mood over the years. "Keep 'Em on the Run" crys a World War II poster bearing crude caricatures of Hitler, Tojo and Mussolini. In a 1971 Viet Nam- era placard, a Marine drill sergeant braces new recruits with a more subdued slogan: "We Don't Promise You a Rose Garden...
...Safran has a lot of energy, but Mussolini made the trains run on time," Frye said...