The act of transforming our knots into marks on the paper begins to give a discipline.
When converted into German marks, the workers would not be earning a great deal.
Upgrading into higher marks generally improves the unit basic performance.
By the mid-1970's the lines gained a life of their own, being freehand or often broken into short irregular marks.
Commodity prices translated into yen and marks have not changed much in the past year.
Housewives, who control vast savings, are moving into dollars, pounds and marks.
Money flowed into marks and out of pounds, driving the pound below permissible levels.
And political problems elsewhere in Europe have been pushing a lot of money into German marks.
"I had money sent from Japan to a Swiss bank and exchanged it into marks."
The company hopes to cut losses this year, but does not see any increase in turnover after translation into marks, although volume will rise.