Word: lire
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...lives picking at rocks which machines can remove so easily?' For several years they stayed at home not smiling with their work, but scowling at it. Now they have gone to Naples to work in a canning factory. Sacrificing their freedom to another's machine for a few more lire to spend on the women. And it is you Americans who have caused this...
...quiz-show contagion has spread from the U.S. to just about every nation that boasts a TV transmitter. In Brazil contestants compete for as much as 45,000 cruzeiros ($675); in Italy it is possible to win a fat bundle of 5,000,000 lire ($8,000); in Britain a Pakistani college girl got ?1,024 ($2,867) for her knowledge of Chaucer. Mexican viewers of The 64,000 Peso ($5,120) Question were grumbling that the sponsor was asking impossible questions to avoid paying the jackpot, but finally a textile engineer named Jaime Olvera broke the bank by identifying...
...Italy the income-tax law is about as popular, and as enforceable, as Prohibition used to be in the U.S. Out of 47 million Italians, barely a million admit to any taxable income at all; of the million, only a handful admit to making more than 5,000,000 lire ($8,000) a year. In 1954 Gina Lollobrigida, one of Italy's most conspicuous assets, reported an income of but $4,800. The tax collectors' estimate of her income: $40,000. When Textile Manufacturer Gaetano Marzotto once owned to an income of $704,000, Rome...
...Premier Scelba, the lawyer son of a Sicilian sharecropper. The Communists, bringing over 800 mainland activists, staged almost 200 parlate. The Monarchists with funds from their lavish Neapolitan leader, Achille Lauro, passed out empty wallets at one rally and promised that a Monarchist regime would fill them with lire...
...keep in suing trim, Gina last year got entangled in suits involving 1) ownership of a house, 2) a Turin vermouth firm (for using her picture to advertise its wine), 3) a radiologist (who charged that Gina had welched on a 15,000 lire X-ray bill...