Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...swept Europe seems now on the verge of doing the same in the U. S. The faltboot (folding boat) was invented by a Bavarian named Klepper in 1902. After the War, faltbootpaddeln took Germany by storm, became as popular in summer as skiing is in winter. In Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and England there are now some 500,000 faltboats. Year and a half ago one Jakob Kissner arrived in the U. S., got a patent on faltboats, began making them under the name Folbot in Long Island City. To date he has sold about 2,000. Last fortnight, recalling...
...world's mounting gold output disturbed even the august assembly of the Bank for International Settlements meeting last week in Basle, Switzerland. On hand were such central banking potentates as Britain's Montagu Norman, Germany's Hjalmar Schacht, France's Emile Labeyrie. Representing the U. S. was Vice President Samuel A. Welldon of Manhattan's First National Bank...
...Montreux, Switzerland beat Ireland...
...Germany and was active in the elections of the next year which preceded the Nazi rise to power. He left the country a few months before the Nazi "blood purge" of June, 1934, and has not returned since. He has lived for the most part in Holland and Switzerland...
...Until recently the two known male hormones were androsterone, first obtained by Butenandt of Germany, and a much more powerful one called testosterone, isolated by Laqueur of The Netherlands. In 1934-35 both of these were synthesized by Ruzicka of Switzerland. Last week Dr. Russell E. Marker and his associates of Pennsylvania State College announced isolation and synthesis of a third male hormone, secreted in the bodies of women...