Word: viscosa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...against Britain. Greatest shock has been the sell-out of all the fine-sounding ideals with which Benito Mussolini once used to charm his people. The most powerful men in the country are the great industrialists who run the Fiat (autos, armaments), Montecatini (mining and chemicals) and Snia Viscosa (ersatz textiles) monopolies. Along with them has been created a new class of wealthy men in high Government office. Italian peasants, remembering Mussolini's attacks on Democratic plutocrats (men who grew powerful through wealth) have coined a new phrase for the wartime wealthy: "Cratoplutes" (wealth through power...
...Italian count (who likes to be called Mr.), debonair Giovanni Naselli. Born in Manhattan 45 years ago, and hence a U.S. citizen, the count is no Fascist although he spent about ten years making rayon and lire in the Rome branch of the huge Società Generate Italiana della Viscosa, a world leader in cheap rayon manufacture. In 1933 he went to Mexico City, there started his own rayon twisting plant, Cia. Nacional de Artisela. S.A., whose 25,000 spindles now twist 60% of Mexico's rayon yarn and make it the world's No. 2 exclusively rayon...
...handling war goods of all sorts, with transatlantic fares jacked up 100%. The trade boom at first got ahead of stock prices. But in November nearly all sectors of the market in Rome began a steady rise. This slacked off last week because the great Italian textile trust Snia Viscosa, known to have fat profiteering spoils, declared only its ordinary dividend. The State was said to be "persuading" all Italy's great corporations to carry war profits as "reserves"-with likelihood that the State may later take most of these by a special tax. Bouncingest Italian war baby stocks...