Word: centavo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three union leaders, and told the Governor that "functionaries who ordered these arrests don't know the humble pot of beans." The men were released, the strikers went back to work. Bread prices stayed up, but bakers agreed to put 75% of their production in the small, 5 centavo loaf, only 25% in more expensive sizes...
That the new cruzeiro system would bring immediate relief seemed dubious. In effect, Brazil would get not only new money, but more money. Only gradually will the new 10, 20 and 50 centavo pieces, the new, uniform-size cruzeiro bills supplant the timeworn milreis. The new coins, copper, aluminum and zinc, minted since Oct. 12 are being released immediately, but surcharged milreis bills will for a time serve as cruzeiro bills...
...Britons and Anglo-Argentines, mostly junior executives in Ernst, Berg & Cia. (advertising agency), formed, half in fun and half in earnest, the Fellowship of the Bellows. Aim: "to raise the wind" for purchasing Hurricane and other fighter planes for the R. A. F. Method: each member contributes one Argentine centavo (4?) for each Axis plane downed during the month. Thus, in October the Fellowship's 3,000 members each paid in 288 centavos or 2.88 pesos (72?) for the 288 enemy planes notched up by the R. A. F. that month. This totaled some $2,100 or just over...