Word: lei
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deal for $3,300,000 worth of field guns Rumania's uniformed grafters set the price Skoda must pay to get the contract at some $800,000, which works out in native currency at 79,000,000 Rumanian lei...
...Lei-bedecked and smiling he was formally welcomed as he descended from the Houston at Honolulu on the Island of Oahu the following morning. Through flagwaving crowds he drove from the city, visited fishing villages, pineapple and sugar plantations, out to Schofield Barracks to lunch with Major-General Briant H. Wells, review 15,000 troops. That evening he dined at Iolani Palace with Governor Poindexter. At a great luau (native feast) he received the great men of the islands, was robed in a leather cape which made him a member of the island nobility, did not get away until midnight...
...saying: "There is a Japanese soldier pointing a rifle at every Chinese inhabitant, but keeping down nationalism is like sitting on a horse's head-there's no time to do anything else. The Chinese should study Communism." In Hawaii, though he refused to be garlanded with lei, he said: "I sincerely hope you never permit Christianity to destroy or change the beauty of your dances. They have the charm of unspoiled nature...
...coins appeared, a Rumanian priest decided to buy the used Buick of the representative in Rumania of the Baldwin Locomotive Works. A bargain was struck. That evening the priest appeared, riding in a two-horse carriage. He had with him twelve huge gunny sacks stuffed to bursting with 20-lei Rumanian bills. It took until 2 a. m. to count them?after which the priest drove off in his Buick...
...Once a 20-lei bill was worth $3.86. Today it is worth 12 ¢. Last week, after the new "golden" coins were issued, a contractor called at the Bucharest City Hall to collect a bill for 200,000 (about...