Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though some businessmen were baffled by the sudden uproar, Rand knew very well what he was doing. The Government had seized G.A.F. in the belief that G.A.F.'s Swiss parent, I.G. Chemie, was a front for Germany's I.G. Farben. But since the war's end I.G. Chemie has intensified its claims that it never was any such thing. Remington has bought large interests in I.G. Chemie-and in Interhandel, its corporate successor. If Rand can prove that U.S. seizure of G.A.F. was unwarranted, it will have to be returned to the Swiss, with whom his chances...
...where you can go and tear yourself down after you've been building yourself up on the snowy slopes," mumbled Vag to his drinking companion. "But on second thought this isn't so bad." He made a significant gesture towards the glassed-in counter which housed slices of Swiss cheese, salami, bologna, knackwurst, brockwurst, blood pudding and other samples of the Wursthaus larder...
Barbara Hutton, 34, was having some more despite her famed swearing-off statement of last April. ("You can't go on being a fool forever," she said then.) The synthetically svelte, fashionably deadpanned heiress married her fourth in a snowy Swiss town. At the start it was rather picturesque and dashing. (She added an extra dash of the picturesque by screwing up the famed deadpan for photographers.) The groom was a Lithuanian prince* -handsome Igor Troubetzkoy. Trotting about like a jolly uncle who knows how to handle these things was International Playboy Freddie McEvoy, who a lot of people...
Elgin hopes that the spring will help it recapture a big chunk of the $400,000,000-a-year U.S. watch business from the fiercely competitive Swiss. Under President Thomas Albert Potter, 63, Elgin has come a long way since he left Quaker Oats Co. in 1932 to take over the depression-sick company. By 1940 Elgin was the biggest U.S. watch company. But during the war, the three big U.S. jeweled watchmakers (the other two: Hamilton, Waltham) switched to war work. With them out of the business, the Swiss boosted their U.S. sales almost 300% to about...
...underselling Swiss have since held on to the biggest share of the domestic market. But Elgin may supply the new spring metal ("Elgiloy") to other watchmakers if they want it. Elgin believes it has enough bounce to put the U.S. on top again-and strength enough to keep it there...