Word: rial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter last week to loyal Iranians that the railroad had cost $160,000,000, that its financing out of revenue had bled the country white, had caused a prohibitive tax to be levied on sugar and tea and forced down the exchange value of the currency. Not one rial of foreign money went into its construction. Skipping most of Iran's largest centres, crossing mountain ranges, connecting with no foreign railways, the line is patently uneconomic. But Danish engineers, with the help of U. S., German, Italian, French, Swedish contractors, made it a striking engineering job with its numerous...
...first few hundred miles of the King of Kings' expensive railroad toy was paid for by a heavy tax on tea, favorite Iranian beverage. When this tax failed to produce sufficient money, large portions of Iran's silver reserve were sold. The Iranian rial lost more than half its value (worth about 6½? today), necessitating creation of Government monopolies for imports and exports, prohibition of entry or departure of Iran's paper or silver money. Food prices doubled, taxes trebled. To meet clearing agreement promises, large stores of grain, rice, dried fruits, some needed for home...
...disaster, had called Alagna "an agita tor and a vengeful person," had ordered Rogers to dismiss Alagna at the end of the voyage. When U. S. Attorney Martin Conboy who was conducting a Grand Jury investigation of his own, heard this, Radioman Alagna, already held as a mate rial witness, had his bail raised. It took two days to get the story straight: The extent of Alagna's agitation was to strike for better pay once just before sailing time. The extent of his "revenge" was to complain of the food...
...Henry H. Janeway who pioneered the use of x-rays and radium for cancer, and died of the disease; Dr. Burton James Lee, who showed how radium could best be used in cancer of the breast and who died last year holding the important clinical directorship of Memo rial. Their deaths leave Memorial more than ever a Dr. James Ewing institution. But he is by no means without able associates. Well-beloved Dr. William
HARVARD '35 ST. ANSELM'S Fletcher, r.f. l.f., Piechowski Rial, l.f. r.f., Betley Boys, c. c., McCarthy Moore or Stephen, r.g. l.g., Yanchulis Martin, l.g. r.g., Galligan...