Word: progresso
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...espresso business literally by accident. A school dropout at twelve, he worked at a variety of jobs until, at 18, an accident cost him three of his fingers. He collected $1,000 in insurance and invested the money in a Milanese workshop on a back street ironically named Via Progresso. Valente scratched out a living manufacturing everything from electric hot plates to railroad accessories, until a café owner, Achille Gaggia, came to him with an idea for an espresso machine. For ten years, Gaggia had been unable to interest any manufacturers in his process; Valente saw the potential immediately...
...lecture on the United States and the Spanish-American War--in his view the seminal period of U.S. foreign policy in the twentieth century. On subsequent M. W. F.'s May examines aspects of that policy: from big sticks to containment, from fourteen points to an alianaza para el progresso...
...They control New York's Colonial Sand & Stone Co., which gets a lot of city contracts, and a whole spate of smaller corporations. Powerful in civic and political affairs, they own two radio stations and two foreign-language newspapers-New York's Spanish La Prensa and Il Progresso Italo-Americano, the nation's oldest and most influential Italian-language newspaper. (Another brother, Generoso Jr., publishes the weekly sex-and-scandal tabloid, National Enquirer.) Since the death of A. P. Giannini, founder and chairman of the Bank of America, Fortune Pope, 43, has been sometimes spoken...