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Word: m71525894a (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1931-1931
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...choke too hard, the State will prevent strangulation by lowering prices. German banks, who do a little bootleg business in rubles,* reported last year that they were getting batches of Soviet banknotes all bearing the same serial number. Naturally the holder of U. S. Treasury silver certificate number M71525894A entitling him to one silver dollar, hopes that nobody else has a bill of the same number entitling them to his dollar-for that is what such duplication would amount to. German banks have denounced the Soviet Treasury for "counterfeiting its own money." Object of such counterfeiting would presumably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Rubles to Burn | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

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