Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rachmilovich has used the same principle in building the reputation of his play-for-fun Santa Monica Symphony. When he finally got some of his money out of Europe (a friend sent it to him in Swiss watches, which sold easily in the war-short U.S.), he put it into making records ("something people would want-and would have to take ours or go without...
Marks and Littell, it was charged, also set up an intermediary company in Switzerland and wrote themselves letters showing Hyalsol heavily in debt to the Swiss company. The royalties collected in the U.S. were turned over as payments on this fictitious debt, said the grand jury, and drawn out by Henkel, thus avoiding U.S. income taxes...
...Chief André Laguerre last week: "It is only when the nations really start to talk about abolishing economic frontiers that the Belgian brewers think about all the beer that the Dutch can make. Or the watchmakers of Grenoble begin to agonize at the thought of competing with the Swiss. Or the owners and workers of Italy's Fiat auto plants point trembling fingers at the Renault and Citroën production in France. Or the French masons and building unions become indignant at the prospect of cheaper Italian labor. These are human and understandable fears, which, spelled...
This spring, the Belgian franc is (after the Swiss franc and the Portuguese escudo) Europe's hardest currency. Belgians had their worries, but they were better off than any other European people touched by the war. They had cake in the cupboard as well as hope in the future...
...elegant conductor of the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra ("the oldest and best orchestra in France," says Münch), "le beau Charles" was the idol of lady concertgoers. Like Koussevitzky himself (whose second wife was rich), Charles Münch is independently wealthy. His wife, the daughter of a Swiss condensed-milk millionaire, inherited a fortune said to be close...