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...Then I'll be arrested,' said Gualino. Gualino's tone so impressed Mussolini that he sent him back to Turin with 300,000,000 lire ($13,470,000) to carry on with. . . . Volpi was furious and sent in his resignation. Mussolini curtly told him he would be dismissed when the moment came. 'Then I'm a prisoner,' said Volpi, hero of the Italo-American debt settlement and multimillionaire. Said Mussolini: 'If you put it that...
...Porta Pia. His slightly bulging coat pockets held four hand grenades which he had saved from the days when he fought for Italy in the World War. One trouser pocket was full of dumdum bullets. The other held a dumdum-loaded revolver and 60 lire ($22) in small bills...
...course this deflation of the lira will give rise to sweeping and painful industrial readjustments. For example: An Italian laborer now blows glass vases which are sold for 300 lire ($11.25). If the lira were restored instantly to par, the vase (still priced at 300 lire) would cost $57.90. No vases would then be bought by foreigners, and the laborer would be thrown out of work. Obviously, as the value of the lira increases, the price of the vase in lire will be lowered, but this type of readjustment always lags behind the rapid shift in international exchange, and therefore...
Naturally the hard-headed brethren of Wall Street welcomed this superCapitalist defi to Labor, promptly showed their approval of and confidence in the new decrees by buying so many lire that the price rose half a cent...
...lira rose in one day last week from 3.28c to 3.75c on Wall Street, the dollar sinking from 31.01 lire to 27.80 in Rome...