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Show BILLION EACH, CIGARET PISS : TO BOLSHEVIK MOSCOW Dec 29 American-made olgareia no-.v are on sale on the streets 'of Moscow for about 1.000.000 soviet rubles each ! The Bolshevik ruble has been fluctuating fluc-tuating to such an extent lately that It 'has been a common occurrence for dealers to boost many articles billions of rubles overnight. These were principally prin-cipally diamonds, gold and platinum Jewelry, furs and other luxuries sought by speculators, the "tiuadrlll ionalres" and others with loads of the soviet paper cash. ' ' n c day the ruble dropped to SG,-' ; 000.000 to the dollar and two days later flopped back again to 1:7.000,000 ,'to the dollar, where It remained "Stabilised" "Sta-bilised" for several weeks During this period the street car fare In Moscow trams was Increased In one jump from jf.00.000 rubles to 1 000 000 for a sinK'e ride. 00 |