Word: lire
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...less than 250,000 were lost; in October, 1921, there were nearly 500,000 unemployed persons in Italy, in 1922 the number was little more than 300,000, in October, 1923, the figure was 20,000; in the fiscal year of 1914 Italian taxpayers paid 2,245,000,000 lire, in 1921 they paid 11,786,000,000 lire, in 1923 13,361,000,000 lire...
...people of Italy are becoming more thrifty under Fascismo. This is proved by savings bank deposit figures. For the present fiscal year the increase was 4,000,000,000 lire ($168,000,000) over the corresponding figure of last year...
...past fortnight has witnessed a revival of violent fluctuations in the leading European exchanges: Sterling fell sharply, French francs struck a new low level for all time, and Belgian francs and Italian lire shrank perceptibly. German marks are so low as to be practically unquotable...
...striking of special gold coins, the size of a British pound sterling, valued at 100 lire (about $5), to commemorate the event...
Premier Mussolini announced that the Government had granted allowances of 2,000,000 lire to the families of the members of the Italian Mission who were murdered in August near Janina in the Epirus, Greece...