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Word: zdravko (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

Every counterfeiter likes to think that the stuff he turns out is just as good as the government's, but the government usually has the last word about that. Last week a Swiss court reviewed the case of two alleged counterfeiters, Yugoslav Zdravko Beraha and Italian Giuseppi Bernardi, who for months in Milan had been manufacturing British sovereigns* just as good as those once coined by the Royal Mint. With five helpers, the pair had turned out the coins at a rate of 1,000 a day from gold exactly as pure as that used in the real thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: Knickknackers | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

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