Word: societa
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Snia Viscosa (Societa Nazionale Industria Applicazioni Viscosa) is one of the world's great makers of synthetic fibres, employs 14,000 workers in 16 factories scattered over Italy. Long a rayon producer, Snia Viscosa also markets Snia-fiocco, fibre made from wood pulp (TIME, Nov. 5, 1934). Snia Viscosa's newest concoction is fibre made from milk, which it calls lanital and claims is equal in appearance and quality to wool. Princess Caetani calls herself lanital's "social representative" in the U. S. A familiar milk product is casein, of which in the U. S, alone...
...Societa Finanziaria Marittima...
...never sets upon Vickers. It has its factories in Rumania where, for greater convenience, Sir Herbert Lawrence is a director of the Bank of Rumania (and Vickers to some degree allies itself with the Czechoslovakian armament firm of Skoda). In Italy it Latinizes its name to Societa Vickers-Terni; in Japan it has as a subsidiary the Japan Steel Works, and thus allies itself with the Japanese armament and industrial firm of Mitsui. There are Vickers factories or subsidiary companies in Spain, Canada, Ireland, Holland (The Hague offers an appropriate site for some of the Vickers operations), and New Zealand...
...prizes awarded are books, placed the disposal of the Department of Romance Languages by the president of the Societa, Mr. Silvio Vitale, Royal Italian Consul for this district...
Announcement has been made of the Award of the prizes offered by the Societa Nazionale Dante Alighieri of Boston are Otto Gambacorta '35 and Anthony J. DeVito 1G as the two students who have most distinguished themselves this year in their study of Italian and by promoting here the interests of Italian culture...