Word: switzerland
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...days later, the Count Zeppelin took 82 people on a longer trip, 620 miles, over southern Germany and Switzerland. She performed so splendidly that the flight was as lazy and as delightful as an afternoon on an ocean liner in calm weather. Yet, at one time, she stepped up her speed to 81 m.p.h. Over Heidelberg, she cast her shadow on pigmy castles and at Stuttgart solemnly circled the grave of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Wine, ham and eggs, etc., were served above Freiburg, Baden-Baden and Constance. But there was NO SMOKING, for fire is the arch enemy...
Banking houses in seven great centres of finance interchanged telephone calls, cable messages. In Manhattan, the house of Lee, Higginson & Co. knew what associated houses were doing in London, in Berlin, in Sweden, Holland, Switzerland, Belgium. At a given moment, last week, the seven groups acted together, announced a Swedish financing deal...
...transmitting stations to be built near Trenton, N. J. Calls in the first eight months of 1928 were three times the total of Jan.-Aug., 1927. The 12½-hour service has been lengthened to 14½ hours. Now connected with the trans-Atlantic circuit are Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Antwerp, Brussels, Berlin, Paris, Copenhagen, Oslo, Malmo, Stockholm and eight Mexican cities. The latest extension, completed last fortnight, carries the service to Guadalajara, Mexico...
...Switzerland last week the problem was handled frankly, swiftly. When a bill was offered to the cantonal legislature of Vaud that body passed it unanimously...
...Paris the better to get perspective on the American scene, but his origins are all-American. Born (1896) in Ohio of Boston-Maryland stock, he went to public schools, and to the Cornell Agricultural School. During the War he served with the French Army, in numerous sectors from Switzerland to the North Sea. He then resumed newspaper jobs in Manhattan, wrote up current theatre, worked on a music magazine...