Word: lire
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...photographers to hurry. Sweating mightily, Thresher Mussolini pitched wheat into the machine for one full hour while the peasants of Sabaudia, hoarse from their usual heavy doses of quinine, sang folk songs to him. An official called time and then handed him a pay ticket for 2 lire, 10 centesimi (18?), the usual wage for an Italian farm laborer's hour of work. Puffing and bedewed, Mussolini felt that a speech was indicated. He climbed the threshing machine and shouted breathlessly: "On July 9, in the year 12 of the Fascist Revolution, Mussolini threshed the first wheat at Sabaudia...
...your address to the Chamber of Deputies in which you touched on the decrease in the cost of living you said that in Rome one may buy bread for as little as 1.30 lire per kilo [about 5? per pound] and you added I have bought it myself...
...believe that a series of major and greater satisfactions could not have touched Mr. Savio: he has been able to find that, first, his letter reached the Duce and was read by him; second, that bread is really sold at 1.30 lire per kilo; and third, that Mussolini-and this is said for the benefit of all the doubting thomases, great or small-makes no statements, especially on subjects such as these, that he does not personally rigidly verify...
...these cryptic words, Fascist theorists last week deduced that on the day Italy declares war, Mussolini will begin state capitalism, take over all industrial, commercial, agricultural and transport activities. Both employers and workers will be paid fixed salaries in scrip or ration cards. The profits, estimated at 100 billion lire ($8,600,000,000) a year, will go to the Government. Not loans, not taxes, but business profits, will thus finance Italy's next...
...pride of Italy, with an average of 14 living children apiece-a total approximating that of an Italian infantry regiment. To each mother Il Duce gave a fat money prize, though three were women of wealth. They had already received the Government's regular bonus of 500 lire for every child born after the seventh...