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Fiat,* largest automobile company in Europe and largest Italian industrial concern, has long poured over the Continent its gleaming metal spawn, big Fiats and little Fiats, trim town cars with square lights and snub noses, Baby Fiats that are playthings for South American debutantes, and cars like the huge grey road lizards in which Il Duce speeds from camp to campagna. The Fiat company's ten factories make also tractors, forgings, castings, Diesel engines, electricity; employ 32,000 men; sold 40,000 cars last year; reached gross sales of $50,000,000 and net profits of almost...
...Spawn of Treason...
Your editorial policy would appear to be one of sympathy and pity for this "arch-slacker." You also apparently know as little as I do about the motives or backers of "Sachs," yet you are ready to impinge him as a persecutor of this spawn of treason and desertion...
...body. An eminent critic once stated that Balzac, the novelist, was not an individual but one of Nature's forces, like fire or che wind; Rodin was treated with the same sort of primary electricity. He left as many wrought stones as a volcano -a giant's spawn, beyond precise inventory; countless groups of lovers, nymphs, Naiads, Tritons, Muses...
Consider the herring. Its 60-odd species give it the rank of the world's most eaten fish. It abounds in the northern Atlantic, swims in schools of hundreds of millions. Its infants are smoked, canned, sold as sardines. Its younger set, coming shoreward for the first time to spawn, are caught as whitebait. The largest, known as "herring king," is named shad. He is dark blue above, white beneath and carries as much as ten pounds of most delectable flesh. But?and this is the fact Mr. Hoover will emphasize?37,000,000 less pounds of shad were caught...