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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Phony Payoff. To pass the British counterfeits, the Nazis installed a confederate in an Austrian castle, had him pass the bills in neutral countries in return for a one-third share of the profits. Gestapo informers, who insisted on hard currency for their work outside Germany, also got paid off in the phony pounds. Among those doublecrossed: the Italians who found out where Mussolini was held before his rescue by Paratrooper Otto Skorzeny; the famous valet "Cicero" (real name: Eliaza Bazna), who stole secrets from the safe of the British Ambassador to Turkey. Ultimately, some of the counterfeit notes turned...
Deprived of such land as they had under the collective farms, paid largely in kind rather than cash and denied extra pay for extra effort, many peasants saw no incentive to work. "The well-to-do middle peasants." admits Peking's Journal of Humanity, "said, 'Now that everything is communal, let us make believe we have lost our property in gambling...
With a year-long grant of dictatorial powers over the economy (TIME. March 23), Alessandri has also cut back 5% of the overstaffed civil service, paid $96 million long owed to private contractors by the government, and clamped down on tax evaders. The one place where his regime has fallen short is in the battle against inflation. In the new President's first six months, living costs jumped 22.2%. largest increase since 1955. Alessandri argues that the rise was premeditated; before launching his austerity program, he raised wages an average 32.5%, because "it was a social and political impossibility...
...this might have endured forever had not West Pakistan's Governor Akhtar Husain paid a visit to Quetta and looked around in vain for a daily paper. For his embarrassed hosts, who laid out Quetta's nine weeklies as a substitute, Husain had a proposal beautiful in its simplicity: "Why not come out on different days of the week so that Quetta has a fresh paper every...
...actor, Paris Peace Conference delegate, and such definitive roles as Franklin Roosevelt and Writer Philip Wylie, charmed his victims so thoroughly that the FBI often had trouble convincing them that they had been duped, was often altruistic (last winter he sent the National Cathedral in Washington a $200 chalice, paid for. to be sure, by a bad check); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in New Haven, Conn...