Word: fiat
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...assumed the absolute discretion over Italy's gold most foreigners had supposed he always possessed; shipments of munitions to Italy continued at lowest gold cash prices; the lira, after falling nearly ½? on international exchange last week, bounced back; and activity quickened furiously on Italy's bourse. Fiat motors rose from 394 lire to 401; Snia-Viscosa rayon from 401 to 410 and Montecatini mines from 188 to 193. These movements of course reflected fear by Italians that eventually the lira will be forced off the gold standard. Abroad many a headline writer splashed ITALY GOES OFF GOLD...
Comrade Stalin, an Oriental who has taken root behind the Kremlin walls as secretively as any tsar, promptly chose the third alternative and gave it the force of law by his potent fiat. The present Moscow of 3,500,000 Russians squashed into 70 square miles will be expanded, Stalin decreed, into a Moscow of 5,000,000 in 230 square miles. Most of this vast reconstruction was ordered rushed to completion within three years, but seven more years are allotted to finish up and smooth out New Moscow's inevitable kinks...
...furlough. The best time in the East this season is the 21.7 made by Scallan of Cornell. In the 400 meter run, Blackman of the Polo Alto school, and McCarthy of U. S. C. have both done 47.9, and Cassin, also of the Trojans has done 48 fiat, LuValle former University of California at Los Angeles, who holds the IC4A record at 46.9 will compete this year, but is not expected to win Saturday because...
...clouds mounted to the upper edge of the sun, a fan of golden cables swung down over them into the far hills that rolled about this New Hampshire valley like the broken rim of a cup. The Vagabond, brushing wearily through the weeds of the fiat fields paused to wipe the perspiration from his warm face. His shabby clothes, his eyes rather puffed and watery, betokened the dusty plodding of a long journey. And indeed he had been trudging since dawn when he left Dunster sitting beside the river, it seemed, like a contented crimson...
...taken property from the railroads without due process of law because it arbitrarily pooled the pension liabilities of different roads. More important, he ruled that pensioning railway employes had nothing to do with regulating interstate commerce. Said he: "It is an attempt for social ends to impose by sheer fiat non-contractual incidents upon the relation of employer and employe, not as a rule or regulation of commerce and transportation between the states but as a means of assuring a particular class of employes against old age dependency...