Word: kronen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clandestine but innocent correspondence. She developed new hobbies: a morbidly "humanitarian" interest in insanity; a kind of throne-room liberalism in which she prattled social equality, without realizing what a limb she was out on. She built a Greek palace in Corfu (cost to Franzi: 30,000,000 kronen), tried to sell it as soon as it was built. She traveled tirelessly. At 57 Sisi became a great-grandmother. She exercised, traveled, prattled harder than ever...
...Alvan Macauley of Packard. But now The Cash and the times have changed. So high-pressure were Founder Patterson's sales methods that today the U. S. market is saturated; 55% of N. C. R.'s business is done abroad where shopkeepers still toss centimes, kopeks, drachmas, kronen into tills...