Word: strasbourg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Copenhagen clock is the product of some 40 years' planning by onetime Locksmith Jens Olsen, who died in 1945. A self-taught astronomer, physicist and engineer, Olsen conceived the idea of his clock after seeing the famed astronomical clock in Strasbourg. He devoted all of his spare time to planning it and calculating its complex mathematical functions. With funds raised by clockmakers' societies, he completed the plans in 1944, lived just long enough to supervise the first months of production of the clock's 15,000 different parts. Since then, a million dollars has gone into...
...Broom. In Strasbourg, France, after the street cleaners union demanded that Deputy Mayor Joseph Zell, 63, apologize or make good his boast that he could sweep the marketplace faster than the regulars, the Mayor grabbed a twig broom, cleared one-third of the area in a fraction of the time it normally took the usual five-man team...
Some French manufacturers welcomed and profited by American planning. Strasbourg's Vestra Co., one of the big French clothing manufacturers, streamlined buying, manufacturing and selling along U.S. lines, increased productivity 30%, boosted sales 40%, cut prices and raised wages 15%. Marseille's Soulet shoe company trebled sales volume in a little more than one year by dropping unprofitable lines, reorganizing production and revitalizing sales policy. Altogether, said Shaw, 8,500 French shoe and men's clothing workers are now drawing higher wages by producing more goods, while the French consumer is paying less for many items...
...distance record probably goes to famed German Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, who will dash between Scandinavia (Helsinki, Bergen), Switzerland (Lucerne), Belgium (Ostend), France (Aix and Besanqon) and Spain (Granada). Almost as agile will be the U.S.'s own great Philadelphia Orchestra, whose stops will include Lugano, Vienna, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Stockholm, Helsinki...
...resolute exile named Louis Napoleon, nephew of the great Bonaparte, crossed the Rhine into Strasbourg one day in 1836 and waved one of his uncle's aigles (eagle standards) at the French garrison...