Word: drachma
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...that connects Athens and Salonica with hundreds of villages that once were far from the main drag, brought electricity to hundreds of thousands of Greeks who never had known anything but candles, got the shipyards going, and brought strength to the nation's banks. Today Greece's drachma for once commands confidence at home and abroad. Tourists who once chose Italy or France now flock to enjoy the thin sun, sail out to the Aegean islands, and scramble around the magnificent rubble of the Acropolis...