Word: lire
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their $36,000 capital in the first 90 days) had 23,000 circulation in Italy, were flying 500 copies a day to Athens, lining up outlets all the way from Switzerland to Egypt. For their plant on the busy Corso Umberto, they had bought (for 7,000,000 lire, or $31,000) a modern rotary press...
...week's end a placatory 35% wage increase had been granted; the works projects continued. To bolster Premier de Gasperi's Government's sagging morale, word came that the U.S. would send $50 million to reimburse the Italians for lire lent to the U.S. Army...
...ceded land. Ottavi's answer (in huge handwriting): "To the Commander of the former Royal Estate, erstwhile property of the now defeated Monarchy, greetings from a representative of the noble, glorious, social, democratic Republic. Replying to your invitation to this administration to pay 21,500 lire for ... ceding 191 hectares to hungry peasants, I have the honor to inform you that the peasants will pay nothing. They will give you one-fifth of the crop and keep the remainder as the just reward of the sweat they pour out to build a new Italy where Justice, not kings, shall...
...A.M.G. took over Trieste, Tito's PNOO (Regional Liberation Committee), backed by a local secret-police force on NKVD lines, has been in underground opposition to it. The battle reached its height in early July when the editor of Glas Savozaikov, the Slovene paper, was fined 200,000 lire for publishing false rumors about A.M.G. "calculated to excite and alarm the people...
Since 1938 prices had been multiplied by 34 while wages had risen only 10-to 15-fold. A civil servant with a wife and three children, and earning an average 9,000 lire a month, now has to pay 3,000 lire for two pairs of flimsy shoes, or one gallon of olive oil, or 30 Ibs. of flour. In answer to LaGuardia, De Gasperi said that strikes and riots had forced him to give the people more bread...