Word: windisch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nine years ago, a number of the most important men in Hungary including Prince Louis of Windisch-Graetz and the chief of police of Budapest, thought up a very simple scheme for "rehabilitating the finances of Hungary." It was nothing less than printing trunkloads of large lavender French 1,000-franc notes at the Hungarian State Cartographical Institute and dumping them in France and Holland. The forgeries were excellent, but the forgers forgot that all French 100-and 1,000-franc notes that come from the Bank of France are counted by hand and pinned together in bunches...
...days before Prohibition laid its blight upon the land, 19 great breweries were domiciled here and thousands of barrels of Cincinnati brew were shipped to connoisseurs of good beer in all parts of the country. The soul-satisfying output of Lackman, Hauck, Moerlein, Windisch-Muhlhauser. Wiedemann was known and praised and gurgled by discriminating throats everywhere. And now that blight has been lifted. They too are staging a mighty comeback...