Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wilhelm went to live in a Paris suburb. One after another, his old friends dropped away. In 1935, he was sued together with a French actress for collecting money allegedly for the restoration of the "lost Ukrainian crown." Hastily he left Paris, went to Switzerland, thence back to Socialist Vienna...
...Navy-chartered DC-4 flew in from the U.S. with enough anti-cholera vaccine for 200,000 people. Within two days, four more planes arrived, hightailing straight across the Atlantic. The U.N.'s World Health Organization rushed vaccine to nervous countries near Egypt. Planes came from Britain, France, Switzerland, Iraq. China (where cholera is endemic but out of season) sent a million units of vaccine. A Russian plane was expected this week with another million...
Died. Baron Henri de Rothschild, 75. French financier, physician, philanthropist and viniculturist; of a heart ailment; near Lausanne, Switzerland. Probably the most noteworthy of the Rothschilds, Baron Henri won respect for his work on infants' diseases, on milk as a food, and on the radium treatment of cancer (he set up the famed Pierre Curie Institute for radium research). He also found time to write plays for the Paris stage...
...Munich, sell them in the American and British zones, starting next February. As there is little paper in the occupied zones, and as no money from those zones may be spent outside them, Acheson plans to print another German-language edition of 100,000 copies for sale in Switzerland. Then he hopes to use revenue from the Swiss sales to buy U.S. paper for Germany's edition...
...Portugal, Sweden, Canada (French and English), Egypt, Finland, Japan, Australia, Denmark, France, Belgium, Switzerland (French) and Norway...