Word: ference
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Premier Ferenc Nagy and his fellow Cabinet members had paid their return trip from New York to London in Hungarian currency, it would have cost them 14,250,000,000,000,000 pengös apiece.*In Hungary's abysmal inflation- the worst in modern history-one U.S. dollar last week bought 38 trillion pengös. Bookkeepers used a new word: "Mil-pengö" (one million pengös), because their figures no longer fitted the ledgers...
...help a delegation of Hungarian Cabinet members has made the rounds of Washington, London and Paris. Head delegate was astute, affable, peasant-born Premier Ferenc Nagy, one of the founders of the middle-of-the-road Small Holders Party in 1930. Despite strong Russian pressure, the Small Holders had polled more than 60% of last year's election votes...
...with them! Into the gas!" Further south, along the thawing Danube, in Budapest, gypsies who had survived the Nazi purges again fiddled in the cafes (one of their songs: "Give my regards to lovely old Vienna. . . .") and bitter memories welled up with the execution of pro-Nazi ex-Premier Ferenc Szalasi and three of his ministers...
...Ferenc Szalasi, ex-Nazi Premier of Hungary who succeeded Horthy, caught at Mattsee, in Austria, where he had been hiding for months with 23 relatives...
...another charmer together again. But Oklahoma's and Carousel's Composer Rodgers, Librettist Hammerstein, Choreographer Agnes de Mille, Director Rouben Mamoulian, Costume Designer Miles White have not repeated themselves. Carousel strays pretty far from Oklahoma!, just as it shies completely away from Broadway. A reworking of Ferenc Molnar's Liliom, it is not a musicomedy but a lovely and appealing "musical play...