Word: pfennig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sion, which affects him actually, than in Reparations which he only reads about. French unemployment increased by 16,000 in the past week alone. Luxury trades are prostrate; the mining industry is on part time. L'Oetivre (Radical Paris daily) put the matter bluntly with its headline: NOT ONE PFENNIG? NOT ONE CENT!! If this was to be the end of Reparations, let it be the end of debt payments also. London too was anxious to switch the entire burden to U. S. shoulders. Commented the Sunday Times...
...Issuance of new four-pfennig (if) coins...
...famed Ertsatz Prcussen (TIME, Nov. 26, 1928). As pacifists, the Socialists stomached this hateful appropriation only when Finance Minister Hermann Dietrich consented to find the money by doubling the German surtax, i.e. poor Socialist workmen who naturally pay no surtax (a luxury of the rich) will not pay one pfennig toward the new war boat...
...Tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock," snapped Dr. Schacht, "I should refuse to pay even one pfennig more...
...package of matches in Germany costs 1.95 pfennigs. Enough bonalin to light 30 cigarets can be purchased for .8 pfennig. Lighters originated in Vienna 25 years ago. Their popularity waned, was revived by soldiers during the War who were not allowed matches. Today a lighter can be had in England for 10½, in France for 20½. Germany sells an exact replica of the expensive British Dunhill lighter ($5 in other countries...