Word: stettin
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...devaluing the franc, has come close to a realistic value. In many another country official valuations are nearly meaningless. Poland, which has hopefully signed the Fund agreement, still keeps an official value of 19? on the zloty, but recently a dollar would bring as much as 600 zlotys in Stettin. Greece's official value of about 500 drachmas to the dollar is far below the black-market price, which was steadily rising. China's currency is so wildly erratic that no wise trader will accept...
...Poland, the Russians leased several towns near Stettin, containing important water works and one of Poland's last oil plants. The Russian Government was also planning to lease the entire city of Swinemuende, one of Germany's main experimental stations for flying bombs...
...million are still to come, including refugees from the once-German Baltic port of Stettin. The major part of Stettin lies west of the Oder River, provisional Polish-German frontier. But, with Russian consent, the Poles moved over the Oder, took over all of Stettin. Now 200,000 Germans there have been ordered to clear out. There was one Polish concession: they would not eject the Germans until after the harvest...
...Polish territory ripped from Germany, stretching to within 35 miles of Berlin, included coal and iron in German Silesia, the transportation centers of Breslau and Küstrin and some 200 miles of Baltic seacoast, with the great port of Danzig and Berlin's seaport, Stettin. In industrial value, at least, Poland was the gainer; what Russia had taken from her was largely agricultural...
...Poles came to discuss the western boundary of their country. Some said that all six wanted it deep in old Germany on the Oder-Neisse line, including Stettin; others that three of the Poles, led by Deputy Vice-Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, were more modest. Between Poland's old western boundary and the Oder-Neisse line live some seven million people, the vast majority of whom are German...