Word: kroner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dollars, but it will be the biggest mixture of European currencies ever passed in one package by the World Bank-some $10 million in French francs, $7,500,000 in Swiss francs, the rest in British pounds, Belgian francs, German marks, Austrian schillings, Italian lire, Dutch guilders, Norwegian kroner and Swedish kronor...
Royalty from all Scandinavia gathered in Stockholm to celebrate the 70th birthday of King Gustaf Adolf of Sweden. Among the special events: a gift contributed by his subjects, a check for 5,000,000 kroner ($966,500), which the King said would be used to further Swedish culture; an all-Wagnerian concert by the Royal Court Orchestra, conducted, after shirtsleeved rehearsals, by King Frederik of Denmark...
...machines tot up their bills, figure the payrolls, keep charge accounts straight. They are operated by Eskimos in the Arctic Circle, by Fuzzy-wuzzies in Africa; they are packed by llamas in the Andes, by camel cart in Pakistan. And the machines ring up sales in shillings, drachmas, piasters, kroner, yen, francs and even Russian kopecks...
Postwar Europe was like a medieval market town, trying to do business with 16 different kinds of money. Hungry Britain, the ironmonger and coal merchant, was earning more German marks than it knew what to do with, but not enough kroner to buy eggs and bacon from Farmer Denmark. Italy, the green grocer, was picking up all the guilders it could use by selling oranges to Holland, but couldn't buy steel from France because it didn't have enough French francs. Almost every nation's larder was empty of the food and manufactures which its next...
Juvenile delinquency is high. Officials blame it largely on the fact that jobs are easy to get. A 17-year-old is likely to make 500 kroner a month ($96.50) and has money to burn on drink and excitement. Most of the juvenile crimes are thefts of cars and motorcycles, done for the hell...