Word: lira
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chile's Hernán Videla Lira raised the menace of Red trade. "Moscow," he said, "has definitely stated that it is attempting the economic conquest of the free world and, in this way, imposition of its political conditions." But despite hundreds of proposed deals-including 176 to Brazil alone in 1958-Iron-and Bamboo-Curtain trade runs around only 1% of Latin America's total. And Communist loans to all of Latin America so far total only...
...Passionist Fathers at Cesta di Copparo, the Passionists had a new monastery, 20 new acres of farm land and an $850,000 Sanctuary to the Blessed Virgin of Peace." Signor Giuffre never visited outhouse at Cesta di Copparo, nor has he ever donated so much as one Italian lira to the purchase of our land, or toward the erection of the monastery and church. All is being paid for with free-will offerings of the faithful-Signor Giuffre not included...
...Test. In Rome, after suspicious policemen took Blind Man Federico Pugliese, 29, to the station, passed a luscious pastry before his eyes, with no flicker of recognition, a wad of 10,000-lira bills, with no result, a pack of pinups which made him take notice, he yelled: "You cheat...
...believed, American-style, in small profits and big turnovers. Said he: "I prefer to make one lira cutting costs rather than five by raising prices." But where Donegani's business acumen triumphed, his political instincts failed. A Fascist member of Parliament as early as 1921 and onetime president of the National Fascist Federation of Industries, Donegani was arrested by the Allies in 1945. He died two years later, a broken...
...flow their way that it might torpedo the European Payments Union, to the detriment of all European traders outside West Germany. Belgium, Holland and Switzerland all have stable money and trade balances, could probably compete under the terms of free currency exchange. Italy, too, is moving ahead rapidly; the lira has been stabilized at 625 to the dollar, and, while Italy has a sizable trade deficit, the flood of tourist dollars helps right the balance, has pushed foreign currency reserves to a near record $1.2 billion...