Word: piedmont
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Crown Prince Umberto of Italy, 25, with his regiment during maneuvers in the Piedmont Alps; heard a little girl had been bitten by a viper. He drove to the spot with a doctor, rushed the girl to Turin for further treatment. Villagers, learning his identity, made festival, wore Sunday clothes the rest of the week...
Eager to emulate the Frascati pilgrims, other wine-growing districts of Italy planned gifts for the Vatican cellar. From the Alps 5,000 ex-service men had already brought a tun of Piedmont's ruddy Barolos. Sicilians promised 1,000 bottles of tawny Moscato. Tuscany pledged 1,000 of Chianti. Umbria planned a gift of pale Orvieto Secco, most delicate of Italian wines. On the slopes of Vesuvius, Neapolitans prepared 1,000 of Lacrima Christi, Tear of Christ, for Peter's Cellar...
Dislikers of the Power Trust remarked that although International Paper & Power Co. does not sell power in the Carolinas and Georgia, the papers purchased by LaVarre and Hall are all in or near the Piedmont waterpower section of the southeast...
...about cheap, unorganized white labor in the South, abundant water power, lenient mill laws (the 72-hour week, night work for women and children), special tax exemptions, proximity to the textile industry's raw material, King Cotton. Mill after mill closed in New England to reopen in the Piedmont section of the Carolinas. The labor was new, but the proprietors were mostly the same...
...Italy was a man called Garibaldi who had escaped many deaths, who hated Austria and whose name rang often and fervently in the hills of Piedmont...