Word: kronor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year since 1911, Sweden's Taxeringskalender was proving a boon to the boastful, a murrain to the miserly and a surefire smash in the bookstalls. The book-a privately published almanac which meticulously lists the annual earnings of every Swede, except royalty, who makes more than 15,000 kronor (about $3,000)-sold 14,000 copies during the first few days after publication...
...some 21 countries, including, among others, Australia, New Zealand, China, India, Latin America, the Middle East, and most of Western Europe. This Christmas almost all of TIME's more than a quarter of a million civilian subscribers and newsstand buyers outside the U.S. can use their local currencies (kronor, piastres, rupees, bolivars, etc.) to buy their own subscriptions or to send TIME as a gift to a friend any place in the world where U.S. periodicals can be mailed...
...Russians were testing rocket equipment left by the Germans at Peenemünde, the now Russian-occupied V-bomb launching site (110 miles from Sweden); 2) they were trying to impress the world; 3) they were underlining, perhaps coincidentally, their suggestion that Stockholm give Moscow a one billion kronor ($278,500,000) credit, more than Sweden can afford without disrupting her economy...