Word: lire
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...with the first batch of pilgrims they had seen in years. One old Swiss woman with a strange silver headdress covering her huge bun of white hair got a 100-lira note from a moneychanger in exchange for her 100-Swiss-franc note (worth more than 20,000 lire). Postcard peddlers got rich...
...used to be," said Perrier, who once made a fortune selling real estate in the U.S. and lost it gambling in Havana, "that you could fight a nice duel for two or three thousand lire. Now it costs 25,000 ($111 ) or more. How do you spend the money? Well, you have to rent the swords. That's 5,000. Then there are the doctors -another 5,000. Then a dinner for your seconds-10,000. And of course you have to take a taxi. It's too much. I don't know anyone I dislike well...
...party's attempts to peddle it to the newspapers. The Communists first charged $100 for one of Audisio's photographs, then went down to $35, still found no takers. Both A.P. and U.P. refused to bid for "exclusives," but Overseas News Agency came through with 50,000 lire ($133) for a special bylined article-which did not turn out to be very special. When an Overseas man asked Audisio for more information, the bookkeeper answered: "I can't sell all my secrets at once...
...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...