Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berlin police began a search for foreign currency, principally dollars and pounds. On the Friedrichstrasse and the Kurfürstendam, 27 raids took place and vast quantities of real money was confiscated. Foreigners were treated like nationals, except when they could prove that they were in transit, when they were allowed to keep their money. All persons received the privilege of calling at the police station after two days to receive the value of their money in marks...
...Chancellor, in his speech in Berlin, made it clear that the German economic situation could not be ameliorated until the Ruhr dispute was settled. With Winter looming large in the future, Germany was forced to make every effort to end her ruinous policy in the Ruhr and to make gigantic efforts to bring some sort of order into the hectic chaos now prevalent in the Reich...
...amazing output of 389,000,000,000,000 of marks - or more than all outstanding marks put together- was seen. The discount rate of the Reichsbank stood at the unparalleled rate of 90%. Individual German States like Dantzig are seeking to establish new currencies of their own, and the Berlin government is frantically at work trying to invent some new gold-convertible currency for the nation...
Fritz Kreisler, violinist: "In Berlin I convalesced after the loss of a great toe, accidentally injured while I trained Austrian troops...
...said that the only bargain left in Germany today is in domestic servants. Greater Berlin's organized housewives and servants union agreed upon the following final wage scale for August...