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...billions, legally and by the connivance of avaricious Christians. For a time Christian gold flowed in from the outer world but soon it was all lost by the charming but impractical Viennese. Department stores passed into Christian hands but the aisles were vacant, management was stupid, fashion languished. The krone, dropping dizzily, turned today's newly-rich bourgeois into tomorrow's bankrupt. Theatres closed or gave dull plays with inept actors. Tens of thousands of Viennese apartments stood vacant. Viennese husbands moped; without the competition of smart Jewesses, their wives wore Scotch tweeds, Alpine woollens, no cosmetics. The tearful partings...
Countries whose former currencies have collapsed through inflation have also contributed new names to foreign exchange tables. Austria has set up a silver "shilling," following British precedents, as British bankers were so instrumental in helping her stabilize her former "krone." In place of the practically worthless mark Germany has similarly adopted the "retenmark," nominally worth one gold mark, or 23.80. The Russians, deeming their former roubles hopeless, have issued the "chervonetz" equal to ten gold roubles, or $5.15. And now Hungary has followed suit by replacing its old "krone" with a new currency called the "sparkrone...
...does not perform on human beings the operation that goes by his name. He has not, in fact, received any income from his discoveries, but has allowed regular practitioners to reap the financial benefits. As a result, his own experimental work has languished, the diminished purchasing power of the krone making prohibitive the upkeep of the essential laboratory animals...
...reported from Vienna that the Austrian Government proposes to create a new currency, by which a krone will represent from 1,000 to 10,000 times the present inflated krone. The Austrian krone is worth about $14 a million...
Overture, "Wem die Krone" Ritter...