Word: pesetas
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...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...
Because the successful offensive last spring of Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco split Leftist Spain into two parts, mail has since been carried between Valencia and Barcelona chiefly by submarine. Last week in the U. S. arrived copies of the issue of one, two, six and ten peseta "submarine stamps" (see cut), all illustrated with submarines, by which the Leftists have commemorated the fact of their physical division...
...that every one has returned from the summer vacation full of exciting stories about running into a New Bedford steamer in a blinding fog or chasing some lovely female up and down the hills of Bermuda on a bicycle, the Vagabond feels inclined to interject his peseta's worth. He too has traveled and done things...
...Burgos. At the start of hostilities the Rightists simply surcharged the Republican currency. In April these bills were withdrawn from circulation, however, and new bills bearing the imprimatur of BANCA ESPANA rolled from the presses at Burgos and have been kept at a fictitious value of about 10? a peseta inside Spain.* This was the job of Salvador Amado, Delegate of State for the Treasury, who has imposed a strict embargo on exporting the money across the border. The $700,000,000 Spanish gold reserve fell into the hands of Valencia, so Senor Amado has had to hump himself...
Even that notorious dastard and Spanish Political Grafter Juan March, popularly supposed to get his way in any part of Spain with 1,000 peseta notes, bolted like a rabbit for France until things should quiet down. A few weeks ago brazen Juan March was offering publicly to highest bidders the Governorship of a Spanish province and all its seats in the Cortes, which he claimed to control. Last week Dastard March and the blameless Duquesa de Fernán Núñez were about equally scared. The Duchess stripped off her great rope of pearls, left it with...