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Word: officina (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...workers at Italy's biggest plant overthrew ten years of Communist leadership (TIME, April 11), started a chain reaction. In the industrial north, the anti-Communist rebellion swept through plant after plant, winning elections outright in some, scoring big gains in others. At Milan's Officina Meccànica (truck bodies), the Communist vote plummeted from a secure 80% last year to a minority 37%. Most significant yet was last week's vote at the Falck steel works in Sesto San Giovanni, an industrial suburb of Milan known as Italy's Little Stalingrad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Clamorous Defect | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

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