Word: guldens
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...America's two new managing directors, Frans C. Bouman, longtime general manager of Rotterdam Lloyd for the Far East, and Willem H. de Monchy of the Van Ommern shipping firm, vetoed the idea of a Government subsidy. They did get a 20-year loan of 12,000,000 gulden from the Government...
...that the great agglomerations of French capital are considerably less frightened of Hitler than of Stalin and his Communists in France. The mere prospect that a National Government was perhaps going to be formed in Paris excluding the Reds was taken as a bull point, French capitalists dumped pounds, gulden and Swiss francs (all of which declined) and bought French francs (which rose) in an optimistic Paris atmosphere-while Austria was being invaded...
Chorus of one of the first Dutch popular songs composed to honor the newborn Princess is intelligible only if one knows that a riks is a coin worth 2½ gulden. The chorus...
...This gulden grows into riks...
...revision-to $2 after April 1. The French visa, ordinarily $2.33, is reduced to 47? for the Paris Exposition Season this spring and summer, with 50% reduction to Exposition visitors of all French rail fares. Italy offers similar inducements and the recent devaluation of French francs, Belgian francs, Dutch gulden, Swiss francs and Italian lire make these ideal post-Coronation countries, cheaper today by some 20% to 40% than they were in 1936 and better bargains than they will be in 1938 as prices inevitably rise to offset devaluation. Canadians are in the same state of mind...