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A column twenty centuries old, erected on the shores of Ostia, port of Imperial Rome, to safeguard the fortunes and victories of the Roman triremes, was presented by Fascist Italy, by command of Benito Mussolini, to Chicago as an exaltation, symbol, and memorial of the Atlantic squadron led by Balbo that, with Roman daring, flew across the ocean in Year 11 of the Fascist Era.
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