Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bald, pale Mario Scelba, Italy's tough Minister of the Interior, had studied a Cominform directive found by his police on a Red courier en route to France from Bulgaria. Scelba was convinced that French and Italian Communists were under orders to launch a spring offensive. One day last week he warned his fellow ministers: "We are in an emergency." He asked and received extraordinary power to keep public order, including reinforcements for the police and a ban on all public and factory meetings...
...that made good reading in any language. The biggest deal called for Armco to supervise construction and operation of Italy's first continuous strip rolling mill, at the Cornigliano steel plant near Genoa. The mill, which will cost $87 million, will be financed by ECA (32%) and the Italian government, and is one of the first joint attempts by ECA and U.S. private enterprise to help Europe's steel industry...
...very well with the production of rolled steel: total production last year was only 300,000 tons, barely half the country's requirements. When it reaches capacity in about two years, Cornigliano alone will roll 458,000 tons, and should be able to undersell other Italian-made steel by 25%. Armco will send 60 technicians to Italy to train Cornigliano executives, bring 150 Italians to the U.S. for schooling at Armco. For all this, Armco is charging a flat fee, will get an undisclosed royalty on Cornigliano's output, up to 350,000 tons a year...
...Skin (20th Century-Fox) is based on the Ernest Hemingway short story, My Old Man, in which a son's affectionate reminiscence of his jockey-father subtly reveals the old man as a heel. With no subtlety at all, the movie uses the original's French and Italian backgrounds to give a thin illusion of novelty to a spavined horse-racing plot. There are also a few twists that owe less to Hemingway than to successful prizefight films from The Champ to Champion...
John Garfield is the skillful jockey whose well-earned reputation for riding a crooked mile keeps him off U.S. racetracks. To his young motherless son (Orley Lindgren), who tags along from one continental track to another, the jockey is a hero. After double-crossing Italian Gambler Luther Adler by winning a race he was supposed to throw, Garfield flees to Paris, takes up with a chanteuse (Micheline Prelle) and buys his own horse to ride. He looks like a cinch to win the Big Race until vengeful Gambler Adler demands that he lose it or pay off with his life...