"French Workers Bar Strikes To Hit H. C. of L.", The Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, August 16, 1919

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French Workers Bar Strikes To Hit H. C. of L.

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By Walter Duranty

Chicago Tribune, New York Cable

[copywrite 1919]

PARIS -Aug 8, The unprecedented inflation of the century is held by the French to be one of the main causes for the high cost of living.

Whereas in 1906, the floating quantiy of paper money in France amounted to 1,000,000,000 francs, and 12,000,000,000 in 1914 ...."