Word: luxembourg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some of the world's most attractive stamps are issued by governments with one eye cocked at the stamp collector's dollar. Among them: Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and Monaco. Liechtenstein derives 25% of its total revenue from stamp sales...
What Reader Paul Estle [TIME, April 5] has to say about an American Foreign Legion is not a bad idea. In fact, there were so many requests to join the U.S. Army that only last week the U.S. Legation in Luxembourg issued a statement that no one who is not a U.S. citizen can join the U.S. forces. Obviously there are candidates enough...
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...Paris, sidewalk cafés were lined with customers sipping aperitifs or spooning sweetened ices; children sailed toy boats in the stone-rimmed pond of the Luxembourg Gardens. In Italy, peasant women remarked on the number of hens laying two eggs a day; perhaps it was the warm weather. And in Western Germany, after one of the wettest and greyest winters in 20 years, the sun was shining again, fitfully, but shining...
...Kleffens emphasized the fact that the big problem in Western Europe today is not economic but political. Production in all five of the nations that signed the agreement in Brussels,--Britain, France, Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg--is increasing rapidly...