Word: france
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gold began to drain rapidly from Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and Italy into France, thence to the U. S. Since France had the most gold and was the freest in letting it go, the drain on France's gold reserve was the heaviest, amounted to 105,000,000 francs. U. S. capital which during the past year had fled abroad was already beginning to come home because of the semi-stabilized dollar. More insistent than ever were predictions that France would have to leave the gold standard if it wanted to check the flight of capital...
...years ago, a number of the most important men in Hungary including Prince Louis of Windisch-Graetz and the chief of police of Budapest, thought up a very simple scheme for "rehabilitating the finances of Hungary." It was nothing less than printing trunkloads of large lavender French 1,000-franc notes at the Hungarian State Cartographical Institute and dumping them in France and Holland. The forgeries were excellent, but the forgers forgot that all French 100-and 1,000-franc notes that come from the Bank of France are counted by hand and pinned together in bunches of ten. Sharp...
Twelve thousand Paris taxicab drivers were striking against a two-franc (12½?) additional tax on gasoline. They claimed that the companies from whom they rent their cabs ought to pay the tax. Once on strike, they added social insurance and better working conditions to their demands. To 100 non-strikers they showed scant mercy when they laid hands on them...
...shout them down. "I am impatient with the slowness of nations to stabilize currency!" he bellowed, purple-faced. "The mills of the Gods grind slowly . . . We are never going to have full, free trade unless we know what the relation is between the dollar and sterling and the franc. Let us build up the machinery of a cooperative world! And one of the first bits of machinery will deal with the question of how the various coinages are going to be exchanged...
...British and the French, they would prefer the United States to cause its dollar to go up rather than down, for that would mean the pound and franc would buy less American goods...