Word: peseta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...park of the Pardo Palace, outside Madrid, where Madrilenos like to spend sunny Sundays, tough olive trees wilted in the drought. In the palace, walled in and surrounded by army barracks, pudgy Dictator Francisco Franco worked all week on the 16-billion peseta ($1,460,000,000 at the official rate) budget for 1949. About one-third of it would go to the army...
Blanco has spent more than half his life fighting dictatorship. He began writing poetry at 14, at 27 won a 25,000-peseta ($3,250) award from the Royal Spanish Academy. Long before that, he was deep in the revolutionary movement against Dictator Juan Vicente...
...Franco's bauble had spurred her trip. The other reasons for the extravaganza were not so clear. But at least Argentina was advertised, and Eva meanwhile had a wonderful time as she flashed her dazzling smile at ambassadors, cooed at crowds, fondled babies, and impulsively pressed 100-peseta notes into the hands of tearful, nursing mothers...
...everything in Spain, including taxicab fares. Two-thirds of this goes to Government relief, one-third to the Army. Since last August the Government requires each family to present a budget for inspection. There is little metal currency in circulation in Spain; for change of less than one peseta, postage stamps are used...