Word: guilders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women will trudge up the creaky staircase to the auditor's office to pay their annual rent. It is one of the world's real housing bargains. The annual rent is still what Jakob Fugger decreed it to be 400 years ago: the equivalent of one Rhenish guilder...
...violation of all that is sacred to men, I wondered if going to Melbourne could have any sense. We are sportsmen, but we are not soft in the head, are we?'' The Netherlands' Olympic Committee answered that question by withdrawing from the games, donating 100,000 guilder?, ($26,000) of its Olympic fund to Hungarian war relief...
...sell," he said. "We finally decided that we ought to stick to publishing and leave the cheese business to the dairymen. But the research was fun - I've never eaten so much good cheese in all my life." Today the guilder is one of the world's strongest and most easily convertible currencies...
...your March 27 issue you show a photograph of a bisected Indonesian five-guilder note, and call it "an ingeniously simple new method . . . for letting the air out of ... currency...
...black financial magic by which governments raise or lower the value of their currencies amid incantations of economic mumbo-jumbo is apt to baffle all but the most sophisticated spectators. But last week the government of "backward" Indonesia, whose guilder was badly inflated, devised an ingeniously simple new method that anyone could grasp, for letting the air out of their currency. Indonesian Finance Minister Sjafruddin Prawiranegara ordered Indonesians to get out their scissors and cut in half their paper money above five guilders...