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Recently La Stampa, famed Independent daily of Turin, Italy, despatched to Mexico, Signor Arnaldo Cipolla, an able and "Latin-Catholic conscious" correspondent. He, sensitive, acute, observant, reported, according to a translation made by The Living Age: "Those who say that Mexico is a mere province of the U. S. maintain a palpable absurdity. This country is a powerful barrier which the Latin world has erected against Anglo-Saxon usurpation. . . . There is no resemblance whatsoever between ostensibly Catholic Mexico and any country in Europe or America that is really Catholic. The Roman Church occupies here a place not much different from...
Commander Cosulich, whose ancestors had been shippers on the Mediterranean for centuries, was close to Dictator Mussolini, brought Italy up to fourth place among the world's shipbuilders. His own shipyards at Monfalcone, near Trieste, are the greatest in Europe. Recently he inaugurated the Trieste-Turin commercial airplane service; brought Henry Ford's automobile assembling plant to Trieste in the face of local opposition which feared such competition...
Strike. At Carrosio, near Turin, 1,000 factory workers struck against the new nine-hour day. Promptly Fascist militia occupied the mills, arrested the strike leaders, violently persuaded numbers of the strikers to resume work...
...gold debenture 7% Fiat bonds, a syndicate that also included the First National Bank, National City Co., Guaranty Co. of N. Y., Bankers Trust Co., Lee, Higginson & Co., Glore, Ward & Co., Marshall Field. Proceeds of the issue will be used to expand the great Lingotto works at Turin, where a new scuttler will be added to the Fiat farrow-a sleek, snub, pike-pig that will sell...
...Fiat, through ignorance in some cases but the mere desire to save space in others, has become the U. S. Designation for F. I. A. T. These letters form a pronounceable word. Actually they are the initials of Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino (Italian Automobile Works of Turin). Financial ad writers last week yielded to public ignorance by using FIAT in capitals and without periods in large newspaper ads throughout the country...