Word: lire
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...also was billed 5.5 billion lire by Mussolini. He never got around to paying this debt to a creditor going out of business...
Dora Camusso, who lives in a village near Rome, sold some cattle for 180,000 lire. Bandits are numerous in Italy, and she worried about taking so much money home. So she stopped at her brother's house and asked him to go with her. He was too busy, he said, but he gave her a pistol. On the way she met two villagers, who examined the weapon, found it unloaded and gave her two cartridges. A little farther on she met two masked men who demanded money. She fired twice, killing both. Then she went over...
...Rome on February 20 of this year when the first locally printed issue of TIME went on the newsstands at 10 lire. Until that day only a few copies had been coming into Italy by boat and these were three or four weeks old on arrival. Not only was it a red-letter day for us Americans, but numerous Italians queued up with U.S. and British soldiers wherever TIME was on sale...
...secret too that industrialists and large farm owners were also armed, prepared to resist any attempt of workers and peasants to take over their factories and estates. In Milan it was common talk that the Association of Industrialists and Agriculturalists had a huge "protective fund"-some 180,000,000 lire ($900,000)-and was spending it on strong-arm squads and munitions...
Uomo Qualunque. Many millions of Italians regard the country's tangled politics and its faction-shaded parties (six are represented in the Government) with disgust and fear. Symptomatically, Italy's most widely read topical weekly is Rome's three-lire Uomo Qualunque (Common Man or Man-in-the-Street). Its founder and editor: Guglielmo Giannini, a theatrical producer, never a politician...