Word: progresso
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...espresso business literally by accident. A school dropout at twelve, he worked at a variety of jobs until, at 18, an accident cost him three of his fingers. He collected $1,000 in insurance and invested the money in a Milanese workshop on a back street ironically named Via Progresso. Valente scratched out a living manufacturing everything from electric hot plates to railroad accessories, until a café owner, Achille Gaggia, came to him with an idea for an espresso machine. For ten years, Gaggia had been unable to interest any manufacturers in his process; Valente saw the potential immediately...
...lecture on the United States and the Spanish-American War--in his view the seminal period of U.S. foreign policy in the twentieth century. On subsequent M. W. F.'s May examines aspects of that policy: from big sticks to containment, from fourteen points to an alianaza para el progresso...
...They control New York's Colonial Sand & Stone Co., which gets a lot of city contracts, and a whole spate of smaller corporations. Powerful in civic and political affairs, they own two radio stations and two foreign-language newspapers-New York's Spanish La Prensa and Il Progresso Italo-Americano, the nation's oldest and most influential Italian-language newspaper. (Another brother, Generoso Jr., publishes the weekly sex-and-scandal tabloid, National Enquirer.) Since the death of A. P. Giannini, founder and chairman of the Bank of America, Fortune Pope, 43, has been sometimes spoken...
Vengeance Under Glass. Kubitschek's critics do not deny that he has been a builder, but wryly charge that Brazil's official motto, "Ordem e Progresso," has in the process become "Disorder and Progress." Kubitschek has printed almost as many inflationary paper cruzeiros (66.9 billion) as were printed in all of Brazil's previous history. He ignores Congress, shifts its appropriations to his pet projects-road building and Brasilia...
...Street and Tammany Hall." Copies of the Wall Street Journal (New York City circ. 14,576) and Journal of Commerce (N.Y.C. circ. 13,310) were grabbed up as soon as they hit the stands. Even such foreign-language dailies as La Prensa, Staats-Zeitung und Her old and Il Progresso Italo-Americano sold fast. The sensational weekly Enquirer (est. circ. 75,000) turned into a daily and upped its press run the first day of the strike to 250,000, went to 500,000, then was forced to skip a few days because "we're awfully tired." Newspaper-hungry...