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...increase the State's stock of silver, Torgsin was authorized to accept silver plate and old jewelry as valuta. Next day Torgsin stores were jammed with hungry, ill-clad natives, eager to swap silver for rough clothing and such luxuries, dear to Russians, as smoked salmon, butter, caviar, vodka. Prices were steep. It took a kilogram of silver (2 3/5 lb.), worth about $7.80 in Manhattan, to buy one pair of Torgsin shoes. Two pounds of butter cost 137 grams of silver with other prices in proportion. If silver-bearing Russians wanted rubles, Torgsin clerks gave them twelve rubles...
...Grotkowski had not had too much vodka Saturday night before last he would still be alive, 300 citizens would be uninjured; the Gmilus Chassodim Synagogue would not have been bombed; and members of the Polish Tank Corps might have had their usual furlough last week...
...Grotkowski with a party of friends celebrated the end of a week's work at the University of Lwow (pronounced Lvoof) by getting a skinful of vodka at a local Café. Into the same Café came four self-assured young Jews: M. Katz, S. Keller, N. Schmer, and Isaac Tune, accompanied by a complaisant young lady of the town. The sight offended Student Grotkowski. Loudly and insolently he insulted them. Some member of the Katz, Keller, Schmer & Tune party stabbed him in the back...
...Vodka, 30? per bottle; Cognac, 60? to $1.95; whiskey, 75?; Malaga, 60?; port (imported), $1.95; champagne. $1.80; light wines...
...Soviet government is making every effort to discourage drinking," he said, "with the result that the country is coming rapidly to temperance." Instead of prohibition, the government takes the much simpler method of raising the price of vodka, and because of the peculiar economic system this method is effective...