Word: lire
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...critic, has compiled a list of musical festivals which are scheduled to take place in England and on the Continent this Summer and Fall. American tourists will find no lack of orchestral and opera fare, as they scoot from place to place, greasing their way with florins, francs, crowns, lire, rentenmarks...
American tourists, greasing their way with florins, francs, crowns, lire, renten-marks...
Then it was that Mussolini upset the lentils. He sent the Rumanian Government a note, telling the Rumanian Government to postpone the formal visit of the monarchs to Rome, unless the Rumanian Government gave some satisfaction to private Italian creditors who are owed 80,000,000 gold lire (roughly, $16,000,000) for food and textiles...
Prince Caetani said there were 680 strikes in 1922 as against 152 the next year, when Mussolini seized power ; 7,500,000 work days lost in 1922, as against 250,000 the next year. Unemployment was reduced one third in the same period. And 1,115,619,415 lire have been added to the capital invested in industry...
Although it is denied that there is any political flavor to the transaction, last week, Mussolini and the Polish Minister to Italy, M. Zalewsi, assisted by Signor Toplitz, manager of the powerful Banco Commerciale Italiana, agreed to a loan whereby Italy lends 400,000,000 lire ($20,000,000 at normal exchange) to Poland. The ceremony had an official character, is considered in some circles to be an "Italian answer" to the recent French loan to Czecho-Slovakia...