Word: lire
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people of Italy are becoming more thrifty under Fascismo. This is proved by savings bank deposit figures. For the present fiscal year the increase was 4,000,000,000 lire ($168,000,000) over the corresponding figure of last year...
...striking of special gold coins, the size of a British pound sterling, valued at 100 lire (about $5), to commemorate the event...
...Commissioner of the railways reports that satisfactory progress is being made in reorganizing the State railway systems and in reducing the number of employees. Increases have been authorized in freight and passenger rates, which are expected to yield 100,000,000 lire annually...
Premier Mussolini announced that the Government had granted allowances of 2,000,000 lire to the families of the members of the Italian Mission who were murdered in August near Janina in the Epirus, Greece...
Indemnity. In compliance with the united demands of Italy and the Council of Ambassadors in Paris, Greece deposited in the Swiss National Bank the sum of 50,000,000 lire ($2,160,000) as a guarantee for such indemnity as the Council might ultimately fix (TIME, Sept. 24). This sum was paid over to Italy on the orders of the Ambassadors, who found that Greece was dilatory in tracking down the murderers of the Italian mission on the International Commission for the Delimitation of the Greco-Albanian Boundary...