Word: tchervontzi
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...taken bribes from shrewd Cobbler Kolesnikov. Stars & Stripes. Raucous foghorns and tooting whistles dinned a welcome last week across the harbor of Novorossiisk, bustling Black Seaport. Slowly in steamed the little S. S. Exford, flying stars, stripes. Excited Soviet stevedores cheered. Now there would be more work, plenty of tchervontzi (banknotes, 1 tchz. = $5.13) to earn. The little Exford, owned by Manhattan's pioneering American Export Line, hove into Novorossiisk as the first ship of the first direct and regular service to be established between the U. S. and Russia since the War. Other A. E. L. ships will...
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