Word: roma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wine, then $6,400,000 for Roma Wine (biggest U.S. winery) and $4,000,000 for Central Winery. Not to be outdone, National Distillers bought two big wineries, including Italian Swiss Colony. Results: 1) the distillers now own 25%of all U.S. wine-making capacity (some 200,000,000 gal. annually); 2) the wine industry is shifting from a ramshackle collection of hundreds of large and small units into a fast-moving business with big capital, big production and nationwide distribution...
Against this opposition zealous Fascists demanded violence. "This war has assumed all the characteristics of a political and social revolution," wrote Popolo di Roma, proposing "some beatings-up" for those who read the French-language Swiss press. "These are the prophets of disaster, the professional alarmists, the convinced pessimists, the empty brains and the sour stomachs who still exist among us here and there." Referring to Benito Mussolini's recent order to jettison "the remaining petty bourgeois ballast," Popolo di Roma suggested that nothing remained but to begin...
That this was no private opinion of fire-eating Blackshirt, but the line all of Italy's controlled press was ordered to take, was made clear when the sober Popolo di Roma declared: "The Belgian and Dutch request for assistance is nothing more than official and public manifestation of a pre-existing armed solidarity...
...Most reliable foreign news service, until recently, came from Radio Roma, which has now gone haywire like the rest...