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Word: passbook (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...awards made last week carry a pension. General Eisenhower's honorary pension would amount to 20 rubles a month, officially worth $3.85, actually worth nobody knows what. The General will receive something else more substantial: a little red passbook entitling him to ride, gratis, any time, on Moscow's spick-&-span, 25-mile subway system. Also on trolleys and busses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Bath & Suvórov | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

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