Word: kroner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...that Britain is about to set the pound sterling free to find its own level in world markets, as the U.S. has long urged. The official price of a pound sterling will stay pegged at $2.80. But private banks will now be able to haggle for dollars, yen and kroner on their own terms, getting the best price they can-so long as the pounds bought for immediate use do not rise above $2.83 or fall below $2.77 in the transaction. The change will mean nothing to tourists and perhaps little to traders. But Chancellor R. A. ("Rab") Butler...
...held in Stockholm's deer park and the committee wanted to build a gondola to take visitors round the lake. Sten went to the committee meeting, pleaded history's cause and sold them on the idea of a Viking craft instead. The committee granted him 5,000 kroner ($1,000), and he went to work...