Your Search Filters

Refine Search

RUSSIA CLOSES THE FRONTIERS: German and Russian Reactions to the New Currency in the Western Zones of Germany

... The Russians would not permit the new currency to be used in the Allied zones of Berlin, and Marshal Sokolovsky refused General Sir Brian Robertson's first offer of a meeting of the Kommandatura to discuss the new currency THE FERRY WHICH REPLACED THE ELBE ...

Published: Saturday 26 June 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 464 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

THE BERLIN CRISIS and the NEW DEUTSCHEMARK: Currency Reforms Contribute to the Chaos in the Four Sectors of the ..

... rail supply route, thus making it necessary for the Western Powers to attempt to feed Berlin by air. The question of the new currency reforms has particularly upset Berhners, who recognise that the issue of the Western mark in the city was only carried ...

Published: Saturday 10 July 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 608 | Page: 9 | Tags: Photographs 

AUSTRIA RETURNS TO A COIN CURRENCY: Preparing for Next Year's Cricket Season--A Buddhist to Convert London--The ..

... ON THE NEW STAND AT LORD'S THE RETURN OF HARD CASH TO AUSTRIA-- A SCENE IN THE AUSTRIAN MINT, WHICH IS NOW TURNING OUT NEW CURRENCY THE BUDDHIST MONK WHO HAS COME TO CONVERT LONDON THE GREATEST DAY IN THE JEWISH YEAR-THE FAST OF THE DAY OF ATONEMENT. ...

Published: Saturday 03 October 1925
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 285 | Page: 7 | Tags: Photographs 

GROWIN PANIC IN SHANGHAI: As the Communist Armies Swept Southward

... the exterior of the carriages OUTSIDE A SHANGHAI RICE SHOP A milling throng attempting to obtain supplies. The country's new currency is now practically worthless, and rice is not on general sale. Three dollars per pound has been a minimum price for rice ...

Published: Saturday 04 December 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 392 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

A FOREIGN NEWS SURVEY: The Re-emergence of Countess Edda and Dr. Schacht: A Great Youth Gathering in Rome

... INTO THE CHINESE ECONOMY A throng of Chinese jostling at the counters of a Shanghai bank on the first day of issue of the new currency. The exchange was set at 3,000,000 dollars in old yuan for one new gold yuan, and the new gold yuan is fixed at the rate ...

Published: Saturday 18 September 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1022 | Page: 15 | Tags: Photographs 

GERMAN VIGNETTES: Impressions of Life in the Occupied Land Since the Russian Blockade of Berlin

... many had the same money, old Reichsmarks, rentenmarks, and Allied military marks. Then the Western Allies brought in their new currency, the Deutschemark. This currency reform, in which the Russians would not share, is designed to combat post-war inflation ...

Published: Saturday 17 July 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 599 | Page: 11 | Tags: Photographs 

JAPAN LAYS SIEGE: To British and French Concessions in Tientsin

... trend of affairs. The British Government should abandon its policy of supporting Chiang Kai-shek's currency and help our new currency instead. Lack of capital to back the new notes foredoomed the Federal Bank Reserve venture to failure. Within six weeks ...

Published: Saturday 17 June 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1030 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

Notes from Here and There

... temporarily help this unhappy cripple. O elfridge 's Oxford Street, vJ W., are nothing if they are not enterprising. A new currency was issued in the U.S.A. on July 10 nevertheless, on June 28, these American dollar bills were displayed in their window ...

Published: Wednesday 17 July 1929
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 585 | Page: 76 | Tags: Photographs 

Sterling Holidays

... Sterling Holidays By ASHLEY COURTENAY THE new currency regulations have created a sense of frustration among those who are accustomed to holiday abroad, and whilst I can understand, and, indeed, sympathise with, their feel ing of disappointment, at the ...

Wit of the Week

... there was a terrifically heavy rain storm. The drops of rain varied in size from a shilling to eighteen pence. Why has the new currency not been more freely advertised TAo the average summer girls go to the seaside to be braced or embraced ^r*here is a story ...

Published: Wednesday 09 October 1912
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 851 | Page: 18 | Tags: Photographs