Word: taranto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over Italy, schemes were being made to cash in on the first Holy Year since 1933 (TIME, June 6). As far away as Taranto, a businessman planned to make a killing with beer bottles made in the shape of St. Peter's basilica. (Rome's patent office frowned on the idea.) Police clamped down on a photographer's ingenious gadget: a strip of photographs of the Pope making the sign of the cross; when slipped through the hand, the device would give its owner the sensation of personally receiving the Pope's blessing...
...lived thus for untold centuries-since the legendary days when Prince Aeneas and his Trojan followers founded the Roman race. "We're not Christians," the peasants gravely told Painter Levi; "Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli"-the point at which the highway leaves the blue Gulf of Taranto and loses itself in Lucania's arid wastes...
...Taranto, Italy, UNRRA quickly suppressed an outbreak of bubonic plague...
Careless Talk. Tall, dark, handsome Aimone, an admiral in the Italian Navy, made careless talk at a swanky, gold-braid dinner party in Taranto. Speaking of the recent trial of General Mario Roatta (TIME, March 12), the Duke said that all the judges should have been shot. Seated at the table was Sylvia Sprigge, veteran Rome correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. She was shocked by the Duke's remark. Later, at one of Rome's endless round of parties, she said...
...planes rush copies north to our troops at the front (22,000 copies go this way, and 13,000 of these are given away). Other copies are loaded into ATC planes bound for Corsica and Sardinia, and still others travel south to Naples and Capri and on to Taranto. Bundles of several hundred copies each are flown by air courier to MTOUSA (Mediterranean Theater of Operations, U.S. Army) and MAAF (Mediterranean Army Air Forces) and 15th Army Group Headquarters, while still other copies are delivered to Army Post Exchanges, Red Cross clubs and restcamps throughout the area. And then...