Word: monaco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handsome, auto-racing Prince Rainier III, 26, mounted the throne of the 370-acre kingdom of Monaco, which recently installed dice tables in its Monte Carlo casino to shake more dollars out of crap-shooting Americans. The youthful bachelor ruler succeeded his grandfather, Louis II, who died last...
...issue would form a pile more than eight miles high, or 79 piles each as tall as the Washington Monument." In its familiar yellow-bordered, acorn-decorated wrapper, this month's issue reached 2,150,000 living rooms, libraries, throne rooms and dentists' offices from Maine to Monaco...
Died. Prince Louis Honoré Charles Antoine II, 78, since 1922 ruler of pocket-sized Monaco (370 acres), whose chief sources of income are postage stamps and Monte Carlo's gambling casino (the 24,000 Monegasques pay no income taxes); four days after he abdicated in favor of his grandson, 25-year-old Prince Rainier; in Monaco...
...Some of the world's most attractive stamps are issued by governments with one eye cocked at the stamp collector's dollar. Among them: Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and Monaco. Liechtenstein derives 25% of its total revenue from stamp sales...
Whatever the causes, all agreed that there was only one cure: Yankee dollars. To get them, Monaco has begun plugging its tourist beauties (and little mention of gambling) in U.S. newspaper ads as discreet as wedding invitations...