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...industry to pay higher wages by frequently raising the wages and benefits of their own workers. Valdagno's 32,000 inhabitants are so satisfied with the way things are that the village has the lowest percentage of Communist voters of any Italian industrial community -8%, v. 40% in Turin and 50% in a village only seven miles away...
Even Football Fields. All but unknown in the U.S. until recently, Immobiliare, with assets of $100 million, is the largest Italian real estate and construction company. Founded in Turin in 1862, Immobiliare moved to Rome with the unification of Italy in 1870, and laid the foundations of its present prosperity by buying up pasture land around the Eternal City. Since then, Rome's population has swollen from 215,000 to more than 2,000,000, and as Rome has grown so has Immobiliare. In 1961 the company's after-tax profits hit a record...
...million Mont Blanc tunnel will represent a big advance in European transport when it is opened to traffic early in 1964. The 23-ft., two-lane roadway will chop 125 mountainous miles from the Paris-Rome drive, open a route usable even when Alpine snow is deepest; Geneva and Turin. 197 miles apart by road in the summer and 491 miles apart in the winter, will be separated by 168 miles all year long when the tunnel is opened...
...enough to make a brewer's mouth water at the future prospects. To ensure a splashing welcome for his product, Oetker has prudently included a handful of leading Italian businessmen in his new venture. Prinzen Bräu's president is Dr. Giovanni Maria Vitelli, head of Turin's influential Chamber of Commerce, and among the members of the company's board is Count Piero Bonelli, a Fiat general director. The brewing will be done by German brewmasters, whose beer is more malty than Italian brews and also contains more alcohol (3.6%, v. 2.5% for most...
Ultimately, the "leaders" of the International Set are those with money who do the most with it. Among the most conspicuous: Baroness Heinrich von Thyssen (nee Fiona Campbell-Walter); Rosita Winston, one of the world's best-dressed women and a part Cherokee Indian; Donna Marella Agnelli of Turin, whose husband's grandfather founded the Fiat automobile company; Rosie Warburton Gaynor Chisholm, whose grandparents were Old Guard Philadelphians, and whose mother married William K. Vanderbilt...