Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next month (or maybe sooner) the chairman of Aniline's parent I. G. Chemie, Felix Iselin, will arrive from Switzerland to see about selling Chemie's large interest in Aniline stock. He will confront a tangled lineup of interested parties. The Treasury, which must unfreeze the stock if any money is to change hands, has already vetoed one would-be purchaser and may veto others. The Department of Justice is investigating Aniline's relationship both to Chemie and to the German Dye Trust. Several Wall Street groups, which admire the company more than its present management...
...thunderbolt upon the chambermaid." It was George Gordon Lord Byron, "for whom foreign travel had a psychological significance which his traveling compan ions could not long ignore." His com panions: Dr. John ("Polly dolly") Polidori; his "querulous" valet, Fletcher; his sparring partner. Next afternoon they all set off for Switzerland via the year-old battlefield of Waterloo where Byron, an insatiable souvenir hunter, bought some scraps of old iron to send home...
...Hermann Rauschning, onetime President of the Danzig Senate, a German who renounced the Nazis in 1934, took refuge in Poland. Since then he has fled in turn to Switzerland, France and Britain...
...anti-gun people are a sinistere and selfhish set. Well they know the history of Switzerland. Well they know that a disarmed people are like dehorned and immasculated cattle. There is no quicker or surer way to degrade free men than to disarm them...
...Switzerland: 1,491,000 lb. of steel plate; 690,192 lb. of tin plate; 19 automobiles...