Word: kilos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Good news in Moscow last week: since the first of the year butter has declined from 29 to 27 rubles per kilo; pork from 20 to 18; beef from 14 to n; men's suits from 425 to 220; and the better grade of women's woolen dresses from...
...Moscow last week the State bread stores' price to people with cards was 48 kopeks per kilo of black bread, one ruble for white. At this price Great Aristocrats (manual workers and Soviet officials) could buy 800 grams of bread per day, Small Aristocrats (white collar and professional folk) 400 grams. People without cards, such as loafers or priests, or Russians who had exhausted their card quota, paid last week in Moscow two rubles per kilo of black bread, three and a half rubles for white?or roughly four times the card prices. Often, especially outside Moscow, the cardless have...
...Italians, in that the staple length of its fibre is precisely even and can be given any length wanted by the spinner, and that it is free of dirt and leaves which contaminate raw cotton. Thus although Sniafiocco fibre costs more than cotton (7 lire against 5.50 per kilo) Sniafiocco textiles cost less than cotton cloth (3 to 8 lire against 10 to 15 lire per metre). Sniafiocco fabrics of varying texture and appearance can be made by admixing small amounts of wool or hemp...
...PUBLIC, who came back with the following report to the Duce: 'To Signor Pietro Savio. 72 years of age, born in Turin, ex-contractor, unable to work because of advanced age, now living at 25 Via Calabria, there has been communicated that the bread at 1.30 per kilo was bought by the Duce from the bakery of Antonio Menichini, at No. 78 Via Alessandria...
...believe that a series of major and greater satisfactions could not have touched Mr. Savio: he has been able to find that, first, his letter reached the Duce and was read by him; second, that bread is really sold at 1.30 lire per kilo; and third, that Mussolini-and this is said for the benefit of all the doubting thomases, great or small-makes no statements, especially on subjects such as these, that he does not personally rigidly verify...