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Word: florins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...price hit 28 (almost six times their wartime low), Greek 7s went to 27 (up from a low of 8), Danish 45 to 51 (from 20). And on the day after the African invasion the Amsterdam bourse had such a flood of hopeful buying (e.g. Royal Dutch 1,000-florin par went to 361, up 100 points from the month before) that the Nazis stepped in and decreed that henceforth stock prices could not change more than 3% from the day before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peace Boom | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

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