Word: lira
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...those in the U.S. Typical rates: $5 a day double at London's medium-priced Cumberland, $14 a day double at Paris' famed George V. Actually, the cost of-traveling-and tours-depends on what happens to foreign currencies. Both the French franc and the Italian lira are skidding. If the pegged price is not changed to match the fall in real value (France refused to do so during the war), tourists will find their U.S. dollars bringing less and less unless they patronize the black market. Reason: prices will go up to counteract the fall in value...
...existence to celebrate, were out to celebrate it in downtown Rio. The Dutra Government, alarmed by mounting strikes and mass demonstrations (TIME, May 27), was just as intent on putting Rio's 150,000 unruly partisans in their place. Rio's police chief, somber José Pereira Lira, ordered them to meet in the remote beachside suburb of Ipanema. The Communists refused, scattered thousands of handbills calling all proletarians to downtown Carioca Square...
...maroccanus) somewhat resembles the red-legged grasshopper of the U.S. Peasants have fought them every year in the memory of man, but never on such a scale. Since the last week in April, every able-bodied Sardinian has been mobilized to fight the scourge, backed by a 500 million lira ($2,222,222) Government subsidy. They struck at the advancing insect columns with weapons ranging from rakes and shovels to poisoned bran and flamethrowers. But the locusts came on. Ahead of them young wheat waved green; behind them the earth lay yellow-brown under the spring sun. At night...
Pique Peck. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Lila Roman charged that when she refused Manuel Lira a date he bit off the end of her nose...
Army Banks. If a captured Sicilian town has been swept clean of Italian lira, but bank records are intact, military authorities stock the banks with invasion money. If the bank has been destroyed, the military sets up its own bank, circulates the currency by buying supplies, paying for land for new airports, paying laborers and U.S. troops (at a fixed rate of 100 lira to the dollar). To prevent inflation, a close check is kept on the amount issued. What the U.S. army spends on payrolls and purchases will be lopped from its appropriations back home...