Word: lire
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sign. The Communist-Socialist coalition, which has ruled San Marino since 1945, has kept the voters happy and free of worry about Satan by devoting one-third of its budget to WPA-style public works. This year, with its credit exhausted and the budget at a record 530 million lire ($923,500), the government desperately needed money to meet a new 200 million lire deficit...
...same story all over Western Europe. For years the busiest black market in Rome was sunny Piazza Colonna, just 50 yards from the heavily guarded Chamber of Deputies. One young operator sadly admitted that in two months the dollar had dropped from 711 to 614 lire (legal rate: 570). "Spring always does this to us," he rationalized. "It can't last. People are just optimistic...
...monetary exchange problems. Comparison of Official and Free Market Rates In National Currencies Per One United States Dollar. Official Bank Rate March 15 Rate in the U.S. Country Austria (shillings) 10 30 Belgium (francs) 46.8 49 Czechoslovakia (koruny) 50 600 Finland (markkas) 135 400 France (francs) 214 370 Italy (lire) 575 650 Netherland (guilders) 2.6 4 Spain (pesetas) 10.5 31 Switzerland (francs) 4.28 3.98 Countries In the Sterling Block England (pound) $4.03 1/2 $3.35 Ireland (pound) 4.05 3.60 Egypt (pound) 4.15 2.80 S. Africa (pound) 4.03 1/2 3.25 India (rupee...
H.C.L. In Turin, Italy, the fine for public kissing, which was 10 lire before the war, hit a new high of 5,500 lire...
...neighbors soon noticed that anyone she stopped to chat with in the street was usually arrested by the SS. Soon they were convinced that Celeste denounced fellow Jews to the Germans on trumped-up charges. In the Piazza Giudea they said: "For every Jew, she gets 5,000 lire." They called her "la pantera nera...