Word: kroner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whose colorful history included careers in a traveling circus, and a stretch with the Russian Army as gun carriers, ended up as steaks. But in Malmo, Sweden, a bank account established in 1941 by bird-loving citizens to cover the needs of visiting swans had grown to 4,000 kroner (over...
Nearly 10,000 Danes had shelled out 4.50 kroner ($1) apiece for a 78-page, 3,000-word guide to U.S.A.-Slang. The lexicographers: Danish Newsmen Victor Skaarup and Kris Winther. To keep up to the minute and sometimes an hour or so ahead, Skaarup and Winther had listened to U.S. newscasts and radio comedians, swapped letters with Variety's Editor Abel Green and studied his slangy tradepaper of "show biz." (Said Green, washing his hands of some of their definitions: "They're talking smörgasbord slanguage...
Discount. In Grinsted, Denmark, a thief stole 7,500 kroner ($1,566) from Karl Kristensen, next day sent back 7,000 kroner, explained he had no use for so much...
Allow me to protest against the atrocious bad taste evidenced by TIME in its article [Feb. 25] about Mr. Lauritz Melchior, and its enumeration of how many thousands of dollars, pounds, and kroner worth of Tristans, Götterdämmerungs, and Siegfrieds Mr. Melchior had performed during the last 20 years...
...tterdämmerungs and Lohengrins, say when & where he sang them and how much he got paid. Says he: "I have done a quarter of a million dollars worth of Tristans since 1930. Also 3,340 English pounds, 3,200 reichsmarks, 332,000 francs, and 4,000 Danish kroner worth." At $1,000 a performance at the Metropolitan Opera House, he has figured that his profits, after taxes, are 14? on the dollar...