Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...haggling around a green table are the statesmen of Turkey, first of countries downed in the War to arise under a Dictator. Last week with exquisite politeness Dictator President El Ghazi ("The Victorious One") Kamâl Atatürk ("Father of the Turks'') called at Montreux, Switzerland a conference at which the Great Powers could agree to his tearing up the Treaty of Lausanne, under which Turkey is forbidden to fortify the Dardanelles. This the Great Powers were delighted to do last week. They were most grateful that Dictator Kamâl Atat...
...England to Australia, was beaten only by a special racer, Europe too "went Douglas." By last week, the booming Douglas plant at Santa Monica had delivered not only 81 DC-2's in the U. S. at $80,000 apiece, but 49 in Holland, Java, Batavia, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Russia, Australia, China, Japan...
...Left Wing forces were victorious in recent parliamentary elections in (1 England and Germany, 2 Sweden and Austria, 3 France and Spain, 4 Spain and Italy, 5 Switzerland and Greece...
...largest telescope mirror in the world will be ready for installation some time before 1940 in an observatory in (1 Berlin, 2 California, 3 Zurich, Switzerland, 4 Paris, 5 New York City...
...discovered in 1893. Only a few millionths of a gram per litre of water will kill germs. The silver which dissolves from a plate simply immersed in the water is enough. Thus treated is the water supply of Heidelberg, and there are many other installations in Germany, England, Switzerland. Two years ago the swimming pool of the Congressional Country Club in Washington became the first silvered pool...