Word: lire
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such has been Raphael's fame that all his pictures have been taken away from little Urbino just as he was. Not one remains. Nor is there is a peddler-millionaire in Urbino with 5,250,000 lire to spend in bringing back even a small-size Raphael of questioned authenticity...
Between the ages of 25 and 35, and between 50 and 65, every bachelor must pay 25 lire ($1) annually to the state; and 35 lire ($1.50) annually between the ages of 35 and 50. In addition all bachelors who are already subject to the regular income tax will pay 5% more per annum...
Thus from some 1,700,000 bachelors there will be wrung annually 100,000,000 lire...
...Then I'll be arrested,' said Gualino. Gualino's tone so impressed Mussolini that he sent him back to Turin with 300,000,000 lire ($13,470,000) to carry on with. . . . Volpi was furious and sent in his resignation. Mussolini curtly told him he would be dismissed when the moment came. 'Then I'm a prisoner,' said Volpi, hero of the Italo-American debt settlement and multimillionaire. Said Mussolini: 'If you put it that...
...Porta Pia. His slightly bulging coat pockets held four hand grenades which he had saved from the days when he fought for Italy in the World War. One trouser pocket was full of dumdum bullets. The other held a dumdum-loaded revolver and 60 lire ($22) in small bills...