Word: kilo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...workers. The country has exactly 100 people with annual incomes of as much as 1,000,000 Finnmarks-$7,352 at the official rate of exchange. For workers, the cost of living has risen 4½ times over 1935's - not considering stratospheric black market prices; a kilo of butter (28 marks in 1939) now brings 600 to 1,000 marks...
...fields of Grasse produce only a few, and not enough of those. Citronella, civet, vetivert, santalol, ambergris, patchouli and a long list of other exotic products had to be imported from abroad, and they were still not arriving in France in anything like prewar quantities. Prices were staggering; a kilo (2.2 pounds) of musk is now 100,000 francs compared with 9,000 prewar...
PRICES IN FRANCS Bread Milk Wine (1 kilo) (1 liter) (1 liter...
...Overjoyed, we received news a short while ago--that again you have in the true sense of friendship--without many words--rendered us help," wrote students of the University of Vienna. It was sufficient to give each one of our members one Kilo (about two pounds) of sugar, an amount almost unimaginable for anybody today...
...hundreds of years, Paris' chiffoniers (rag pickers) had shuffled about quietly in the half-light before dawn, pawing through potato peels and rotten meat in their quest for a handful of old rags or an empty tin can. (Their .reward: for a kilo of rags, 4 francs; for a kilo of iron, half a franc...