Word: drachma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happens to be loaded with sugar. When Helen commits suicide, Spiro suffers a bad quarter-hour's remorse; it is nothing compared to the remorse he suffers after he marries the millionaire's daughter and discovers that wily old papa has cut the newlyweds off without a drachma...
...early postwar years, Niarchos saw the bright future of international trade and plunged into shipping with every drachma he could scrape together while most shipowners were battening hatches to ride out an expected slump. In ten years. Niarchos has not only built his fleet-and a fortune estimated as high as $350 million-but has helped revolutionize the design, financing and operation of tankers, launching a new race of giant ships that is fast changing the economics of merchant marines the world over...
Last year with Metaxas dead and gone, the big Athens newspaper Ethnos ran a "Miss Greece of 1952" competition, and their winner placed third in the Miss Universe contest in Long Beach, Calif. After that, shrewd promoters with an eye for a fast drachma started beauty contests all over the place. In Athens alone, there were more than 30 such contests. All this was heady stuff for a country where only last year women got the vote...
...Duluth City Council received a letter postmarked Athens, Greece, from one Jack Brockway, an Air Force lieutenant. In order to remain an upright local citizen, the young warrior wrote, he was enclosing 30,000 drachma (about $2) to pay for an old Duluth parking ticket. Safety Commissioner Ralph G. Fiskett announced that the ticket would be "on the house" and mailed the lieutenant a refund-in drachma...