Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whom no one ever listens to. When everyone else has been killed by a death-ray flash-light, he is left on the stage to talk by himself for a good three minutes. A good deal, eh? But now get this--in the first scene the Gardener is an Italian, in the next he has an Irish brogue, then Scottish, then Russian, and, finally--for his last speech he is the Wandering Jew! (Where...
...putting it onto paper. With three Armstrong articles due for publication in the U.S., he was also pecking away at an autobiography. A sample of loose-jointed Armstrong prose (and his own weird punctuation), as free & easy as his New Orleans trumpet, tells how he gave a young Italian singer a boost on his European tour last year...
...biggest investment of U.S. private capital made in Italy since war's end, Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) last week paid $10 million for a half-interest in two Italian refineries, plunked down another $2,000,000 for purchase of extra equipment. To help safeguard the investment Standard got an EGA guarantee that it can convert at least $14,487,500 of its Italian dividends into dollars over the next twelve years. It is the largest EGA guarantee yet, the first to an oil company. By the deal, Standard got 50% of the capital stock of Italy's ANIC...
...deal gives Standard a nicely rounded program in Italy. The refineries will buy crude from Standard's Near East fields (thus saving Italy $4,200,000 annually in dollar imports), will sell refined products to SIAP (Standard-Italo Americana Petroli), Standard's Italian marketing subsidiary. Standard would also like to drill for oil in the Po Valley, where government-subsidized explorations have already struck a rich supply of methane gas. But Standard has run afoul of the old Italian law, which gives the government absolute title to all oil and minerals discovered beneath the surface of the earth...
...minister to France, he spent a day in an Italian dairy learning how to make Parmesan cheese. His design of a more efficient moldboard for a plow won a gold medal from a French agricultural society. His library at Charlottesville, Va., which was the finest private library in the U.S., was bought by the Government to restock the gutted Library of Congress, burned by the British...