Word: puglia
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...good for pasta-is turning gold in Sicily and Calabria. Soon the harvest will begin, rolling up the toe and shin and length of the Italian boot-possibly a bumper crop like last year's. Meanwhile, there are almonds to be picked on the rolling plains of Puglia, forage grass to be cut in the lush Po Valley, cherries to be picked off the greyish flatlands around Naples. And a bumper crop of tourists-perhaps 6,000,000 -is descending on Italy, eager to be harvested. To the tourist's eye, the cities pulsate with prosperity. Next...
Marxism last week made men fight in the ragged mountains of Greece. It inspired strikes in Seoul, Korea, and San Ferdinando di Puglia, Italy. A Shanghai girl student asked a boy to write in her autograph book. Instead of an affectionate personal sentiment, he wrote: "What is the reason for the existence of people who reap wealth without laboring?" Marx, who guided the Chinese boy's hand, was also last week the most important man in the world's two great centers of power, the U.S. Congress and Moscow's Politburo...
...waited there whom he has refused to see. The only entrance to his garden is too narrow for a fat man to pass, but the slender poet slips through easily. As a garden ornament the Italian Government erected at huge expense the entire forepart and bridge of the battleship Puglia, complete with searchlights and a working gun turret. Here Signore d'Annunzio fires eccentric salutes when not busy writing verses on small slips of paper bound like a check book. Inside the house every gamut of furnishing is run from monkish asceticism to regal luxury. Describing his amazing do main...
...chief problem lay in trying to persuade inhabitants to return to their homesites. Not only the fresh and fearful recollection of over 2,000 killed and twice as many injured, but the fact that the torn earth still quivered ominously from time to time made the villagers of Melfi, Puglia, Avellino, Ariano skeptical about going home prematurely...
Giuseppe Cosulich, U. S. agent for the Cosulich Line, Italian shipping concern, last week confirmed reports of the purchase by his family of control of the Lloyd Triestino Puglia Line, the Maritime Italiana Line and one of the two largest shipyards in Italy. This acquisition makes the Cosulich Line the largest Italian shipping firm, with a fleet of 105 ocean-going vessels, aggregating 460,000 gross tons, operating to and fro between Italy and North America, South America, the Near East, Egypt, India, Japan, and China...