Word: yen
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...reconverted from an army drill ground, and into 17 movie houses (four more than before pika-don). The current feature was one of Japan's first postwar movies called Blast of Love. And for the children, there was a new toy, The Peace Game, priced cheaply at seven yen...
...Times No. In Ohro, Japan, five thieves, offered 2,000 yen by Mrs. Ko Nagashima, snorted, "We couldn't take a paltry sum like that," made her go next door and borrow 10,000 more...
...Chinese Governor Chen Yi found the raid-battered Formosans docile. He promptly put his nephew in charge of the Taiwan Co., which bought coal at 200 yen a ton and sold it at 4,000. Black-market gold sold at 300,000 Chinese dollars an ounce, against $180,000 in Shanghai. Even in fertile Formosa, mass starvation threatened...
...villagers of Kawaidani needed a new primary school in 1926, but they hardly had a yen to their name. Somebody suggested that if they saved all the money they blew on sake they could have schools aplenty. Last week, after 20 years of self-imposed prohibition, 310 Kawaidani farmers counted up their savings. They had piled up 2½ million yen-enough to build several schools. Their duty done, a new school opened, the village's entire population leaped off the wagon together...
...would stand even had the Council suggestion been accepted, that nearly the entire social life of an undergraduate lies within the limits of his imagination and his bank account. A couple with a half-hour to kill must kill it either expensively or uncomfortably, while a student with a yen for dancing is confronted with inflationary Boston prices. Lack of University facilities for recreation can be completely written off only when and if a War Memorial Student Activities Center is built, complete with lounge and dancing space. But interim measures much more effective than the Council proposal can easily...