Word: switzerland
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...people in Alaska bought $42,000,000 of U. S. products-more than Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark, Hungary, Ireland, Norway, Switzerland, Poland, Finland, Portugal or Spain, all countries with much greater population, and only slightly less than Russia and Brazil...
World War I proved it. In 1914 many nations refused to stake their political fate in the quarrel between the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance. But one & all-Switzerland, the Scandinavian countries, Holland, Spain and notably the U. S.-found their economic destiny involved. For World War I profoundly altered every important economy in two hemispheres...
European Bystanders. The economic life of Europe's neutral nations was partly strangled not only by these changes but by force of arms. Switzerland, completely surrounded by combatants before the War was over, found itself on the verge of starvation for lack of foreign wheat. Only the end of the War in 1918, plus an exceptionally good harvest, saved the Swiss from famine. But armies eat chocolate, and Swiss chocolate manufacturers did a thriving business, for the Allies saw that they obtained raw materials. Swiss peasants who owned woodlots found they had a good market for fuel. Electric power...
Music's "anti-aggression front" salvoed its reply last week. In Lucerne, Switzerland, for the second year, opened a month-long festival designed to cabbage some of the Salzburg trade. Biggest tourist bait, as he was last summer, was Arturo Toscanini, whose European pond has shrunk rapidly in recent years. He was down for five concerts, including two performances of a work from which he generates much heat, the Verdi Requiem, to be done in Lucerne's old Jesuit Church. Four concerts were to be broadcast, and Toscanini's son-in-law, Vladimir Horowitz, able pianist...
Less whimsical, but equally sticktuitive are his present clients, who will keep him busy till November. Courier Wagner will then be free to join his wife in London, whence they will repair to Switzerland on their annual winter holiday...