Word: luxembourgers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...million for a Titian when it already owned several; its collection was appallingly weak in French Post-Impressionists; its interest in living U. S. painters seemed to have died with Winslow Homer. From all sides the suggestion loudly arose that Manhattan should have a museum comparable to the Luxembourg in Paris that could buy and exhibit modern paintings, not with the idea of preserving eternal masterpieces for the ages, but so that the public could see what living artists were producing. As with the Luxembourg, masterpieces, bought cheap, might later be passed on to the historic museums, like the Louvre...
...merger of two typically New England Enterprises, United-Carr began its corporate life in 1929, when its gadgets piled up profits of $568,000. Today the company operates plants in England, Canada, Australia and Luxembourg, where its subsidiary is called Societe Anonyme des Etablissements Ri-Ri. Profits showed a drop for three years after the merger but turned upward after 1932. Last year United-Carr reported earnings of nearly $500,000. And by last summer the company felt prosperous enough to borrow...
Obvious answer: Luxembourg. The tiny Grand Duchy has a customs union with Belgium and subjects of Grand Duchess Charlotte mostly think of the Luxembourg franc as interchangeable with Belgium's. They scratched their heads dubiously when the Grand Ducal Govern-ment decided that the Royal Belgian Government's example of 28% devaluation was a bit extreme, proceeded this week to devalue the Luxembourg franc...
...stuffy British Broadcasting Co.* Fortnight ago President Plugge sent Vice President Frank Lamping to storm Manhattan, and U. S. exporters to Great Britain found themselves signing on dotted lines, fascinated by the prospect of having their U. S. products hawked in England by voices from Paris, Madrid and even Luxembourg...
...present this alternative in an appropriate atmosphere, Foreign Minister Henri Jaspar of Belgium succeeded in assembling at Brussels last week a conference of the entire Gold Standard Bloc: France, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Poland. The Poles had at first refused to attend. At the last minute Warsaw got wind that Paris was prepared to make handsome concessions all round to keep the Bloc on gold. In a wild scramble a "Polish Delegation'' to the Brussels Conference was hastily recruited at the Polish Legation in Brussels...