Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marks and Littell, it was charged, also set up an intermediary company in Switzerland and wrote themselves letters showing Hyalsol heavily in debt to the Swiss company. The royalties collected in the U.S. were turned over as payments on this fictitious debt, said the grand jury, and drawn out by Henkel, thus avoiding U.S. income taxes...
...search for a form of security for Belgium, Spaak turned to the narrow solution of neutrality. It was perhaps the least sensible thing he ever did. He obtained from Germany, France and Britain promises that the Belgian frontiers would not be violated. He hoped that Belgium could be another Switzerland...
...meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Dundee, Scotland, and found that 55% of the male delegates showed "central baldness" and 22% "frontal baldness." Swedish intellectuals were found to be in the most desperate shape: 70% of them are bald before they are 40. In Switzerland the incidence of intellectual baldness is only...
...Geneva's stately League of Nations palace, biggest building in Switzerland, the United Nations held its biggest international conference-on the world's press. Three hundred and fifty delegates from 67 nations (including 55 U.N. members) could look out last week at lofty, snowcapped peaks as they argued about lofty principles for world freedom of the press. As usual when good, bad & indifferent fellows get together, not all the debates were on an Olympian plane; there was much bitter name-calling about press warmongering, censorship, monopoly and suppression...
Toasts for Hitler. The Concertgebouw kept going through World War II, but not without troubles. Eighteen Jewish musicians were expelled, and Conductor Mengelberg toasted Hitler, played often for Nazi audiences. Today almost all the expelled musicians are back, and Mengelberg, now 77, is retired in Switzerland. The man who has reconstructed the Concertgebouw is black-haired, 47-year-old Eduard van Beinum, who, after learning under Mengelberg for 17 years, is fast becoming one of Europe's ablest conductors...