Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gillette's seven foreign plants (Berlin, London, Buenos Aires, Paris, Zurich, Montreal and Rio de Janeiro) are also working at capacity. In foreign trade, Spang had gotten around the lack of dollars and other currency troubles by a system of "compensation trading." Thus, Swiss-made blades are being exchanged in Italy for tomatoes, asparagus, and strawberries, in Austria for wood, in Czechoslovakia for glass. The goods are then sold in Switzerland for francs and the francs exchanged for U.S. dollars to buy raw materials for Gillette's foreign factories...
Supply and management of a camp for French, Swiss, and Austrian children in a Swiss chalet for two months this summer, the second 'Cliffe project, will involve Harvard workers...
Avenue tailor. Most of all he likes to wear outlandish hats. His current favorite: a Swiss yodeler's hat. Says Jimmy: "It keeps people talking." Unlike most of today's early-to-bed pros, in the evenings Demaret usually heads for the nearest night club-to hobnob with a bandleader and sing a song with the band. Like golf's great showman of the 1920s, Walter Hagen, he never lets golf interfere with...
...three-woman staff is suitably international : one is American; one is Hungarian by birth and Haitian by marriage; one is Swiss by birth, U.S. by citizenship, and married to an expatriate Russian. Mrs. Lea Cowles, the plump, attractive widow who directs the nursery school, was borrowed from the University of Alabama department of child development. Says she: "When some of the parents heard I was at Alabama, they thought I would turn out to be a race bigot...
...formidably bearded Swiss musician first came to the U.S. as an orchestra leader, accompanying a dancer. When her tour folded, he wound up in Manhattan, where he used to impress friends by accompanying himself on the piano while he sang passionate cello passages from his own Schelomo. That was 30 years...