Word: maund
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wheat price-control act was passed in December 1941 despite wails from Punjab landlords who raise almost half of India's wheat and have been hoarding it. Last week the controlled wheat price was five to six rupees per maund (82.28 lb.), while the black-market price was 14 to 17 rupees. The result: grain prices have risen above the reach of the poorer classes; rising prices have forced the Government to print new money at the rate of about 70 million rupees per week, more than tripling the paper currency in circulation before the outbreak...
...seemed to steady somewhat. Captain L. E. H. Maund, C.B.E., a few senior officers and a picked skeleton crew stayed aboard. Two hours later the men on the destroyer cheered when they heard an order for all rescued members of the engine-room crew to return...
...switchboard was in smithereens, but with the help of portable apparatus they got generators going. They started the pumps, but the Ark was shipping water fast. They even managed to raise a head of steam but soon the gauges fell, the lights dimmed. It was hopeless. Captain Maund gave the final order to abandon ship...
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