Word: campania
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...Occupied Italy is under two regimes. The departments of Calabria, Lucania and Campania-the toe and ankle of the Italian boot-are administered by Italian officials responsible to the Allied Military Government. The Apulian provinces of Lecce, Brindisi, Bari and Foggia-the Adriatic heel of the boot-are ruled directly by the Badoglio Government...
General Mark Clark's British-American Fifth Army put on its raincoats. Day after day, as the Yanks and Tommies sloshed northward from Naples, the sky drenched the earth. The flat, brown Campania, hard and powder-dusty a fortnight ago, softened into a mire. Rivers swelled, spilled into the meadows along their banks...
...under German mortar fire, he picked a careful way behind stone walls up the limestone and pumice heights of the Sorrentine peninsula. From the ridge the patches of chestnut forest tumbled into the brown Campania plain. The General looked in the direction of the ashen ruins of Pompeii, the lava-scarred cone of Vesuvius. Beyond the volcano rose a huge shroud of smoke over the port of Naples. In that city of 900,000, rising in tourist times like a white amphitheater from the blue sea, the Germans were dynamiting and burning. It was clear proof that the Wehrmacht...
...tail, a U. S. salesman can now hurry with never an hour lost on a train. For Pan American Airways Corp. (holding company for the system) announced the purchase of practically all of Cuba's air transport industry, the 14 airports, eleven planes, 850 miles of route, of Campania Nacional Cubana de Aviation, S. A. Though Compania Nacional will be operated as an independent unit, its personnel kept intact (largely as balm to Cuban national feeling), it will be coordinated with Pan American's three trunk lines. North-bound passengers from Barranquilla and Jamaica can change at Cienfuegos...
...Tsar of Russia and both decorated me, I was given the cruiser Carlo Alberto to cruise upon and experiment further. The freedom of Rome was mine when I visited there in 1903- a modern 'triumph.' I instituted the first ocean daily newspaper, on the S. S. Campania, sent press despatches and many messages for friends back and forth between the Old and New Worlds...