Word: pfennigs
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...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...
...since it now sanctions France to act against the Fatherland in the event of German refusal to pay Reparations; and third, that Dr. Schacht, basing his stand as he said "on the highest moral grounds," would not as President of the Reichsbank authorize it to subscribe a single copper pfennig to the capital of the B. I. S. Dramatically nailing his colors, Dr. Schacht barked at correspondents: "I will maintain this position until...