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Local Gain. Until World War II, Sicily contributed far more to Italy than Italy ever gave back. "They grow fat up north with our money," is an old Sicilian com plaint. But in its postwar autonomy, Res tivo and his colleagues are able to claim, Sicily has got 8,500 new schoolrooms, 3,026 kilometers of sorely needed new roads, 131,000 rooms of new housing, a new water system for 247 communities. Total investment by Rome and the regional government in eight years: about $1.5 billion. Tourist business is booming (helped among other things by the visit to ancient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Ice Cream Every Day | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

...TIME, Aug. 1]. It interested me so much that I was telling a farmer friend about it yesterday. As it happened, my friend had just been to Leroy, N. Y. to learn more about this plow and he told me more than TIME had. For your information there are tivo blades to it. The tractor that drags it is equipped with a generator from which the current passes from share to share under the soil, which must be damp to insure good transmision. The current thus electrocutes all insect life in its path and also it fixes nitrogen from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Hearst | 8/29/1927 | See Source »

...Lieber Augustine!) Just let me hold your hand (Ja!). Do, do, come and have a beer or tivo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Tonic for Sale | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

Readers of Dickens' Tale of Tivo Cities will recall its description of Tellson's Bank, yet few are aware that this imaginary institution was drawn from the actual bank of Child & Co., the oldest private bank in England and possibly in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tellson's Passes | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

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