Word: centesimi
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...that heady experience may go the way of the Medici, thanks to a proposal by the Italian Cabinet to lop three zeros off the lira. Instead of doling out 1,250 or so lire for a dollar, bank clerks would slap down a single new lira and 25 centesimi, or cents. Advocates of the plan say the current huge denominations of lire turn such mundane calculations as balancing a checkbook into nightmares...
...Recently police called on a Bari citizen, who had paid a fine in 1935 for skipping the Fascist pre-military course, to demand an uncollected registration fee: 55 centesimi (.088 of a cent). And not long ago at great output of bureaucratic labor, the government began paying off Sicilians for damage inflicted by troops of King Francis II during Garibaldi's campaign in 1860. Biggest payment: one-tenth of a cent...
...Arithmetic books offered this typical problem: "In order to live Mussolini once had to work as a stone mason. He describes it in his diary. He worked eleven hours per day, received 32 centesimi per hour, made 121 trips per day with his wheelbarrow full of stones. How many lire did he make per day, per week? How many trips with his wheelbarrow did he make per month...
...half the Italian Army. The pay of his own Fascist militiamen, who formed the regime's counter-revolutionary force, was suddenly reduced from eight lire (40?) a day to one lira, at the same time that the Army private's pay was increased from a few centesimi to a lira. Such dissident Fascists as Italo Balbo, Governor of Libya, and Dino Grandi, onetime Italian Ambassador to Great Britain, have lined up more or less openly with the Royal Family against such Axis Fascists as Count Ciano, Achille Starace and Roberto Farinacci without being castor oiled. The venerable Marshal...
...photographers to hurry. Sweating mightily, Thresher Mussolini pitched wheat into the machine for one full hour while the peasants of Sabaudia, hoarse from their usual heavy doses of quinine, sang folk songs to him. An official called time and then handed him a pay ticket for 2 lire, 10 centesimi (18?), the usual wage for an Italian farm laborer's hour of work. Puffing and bedewed, Mussolini felt that a speech was indicated. He climbed the threshing machine and shouted breathlessly: "On July 9, in the year 12 of the Fascist Revolution, Mussolini threshed the first wheat at Sabaudia...