Word: societate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last winter T.W.A. signed a contract with the Italian Government under which a new company, Linee Aeree-Italiane Società Perazioni was to get an exclusive franchise to fly internal air routes: T.W.A. was to get a 40% interest in L.A.I. The British demanded that T.W.A. share its interest with the Government-owned British Overseas Airways Corp. T.W.A. President Jack Frye refused, saying that British and American equipment could not be profitably operated together...
...Salon de la Societé Nationale des Beaux-Arts jurymen ponderously examined a group of paintings secretly padded with two genuine masterpieces-a Whistler and a Mary Cassatt. "Not bad, not bad at all," the jurymen agreed...
...Manhattan, officers of the Societé Culinaire Philanthropique, an association of chefs, announced that in view of the world situation, the exhibits at the year's annual salon of culinary art would not include food...
...this quadruple play was an Italian count (who likes to be called Mr.), debonair Giovanni Naselli. Born in Manhattan 45 years ago, and hence a U.S. citizen, the count is no Fascist although he spent about ten years making rayon and lire in the Rome branch of the huge Società Generate Italiana della Viscosa, a world leader in cheap rayon manufacture. In 1933 he went to Mexico City, there started his own rayon twisting plant, Cia. Nacional de Artisela. S.A., whose 25,000 spindles now twist 60% of Mexico's rayon yarn and make it the world...