Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Exports. Last week the results of some "follies" were officially recognized. Austere Sir Stafford Cripps's Board of Trade confirmed that the bulk of Britain's exports have been going to nations inside the sterling bloc. The balance of payments with "hard money" countries (the U.S., Canada, Switzerland) is more unfavorable than was calculated a year ago. The hard fact is that Britain has sold too little in the "hard money" markets (only about 14% of her exports), while buying heavily (about half of her imports) in those markets. A sore point in her U.S. buying: prices went...
...water-powered elevator, run by ropes pulled by the passengers. While blonde & beautiful Mrs. Paepcke hunted Victorian furniture in Chicago, dormitories, 20 guest houses and a sundeck were built, the ski slopes were cleared, a movie house, roller rink and art gallery were constructed. Paepcke imported a chef from Switzerland, a wine expert from Chicago. Ski instructors, plumbers and mechanics trooped in. Overnight, the moribund little town became the liveliest spot in Colorado...
...Washington); Fedor F. Raskolnikov (former Soviet minister to Bulgaria, died in suspicious circumstances on the French Riviera); Walter G. Krivitsky (former chief of Soviet Military Intelligence in Western Europe, died in suspicious circumstances in Washington); Ignace Reiss (former assistant chief of Soviet Military Intelligence in Central Europe, murdered in Switzerland...
...year-old Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, who founded the Zionist Organization of America in 1898, announced: "I do not, I cannot withdraw from Zionism, but I withdraw from . . . the Zionist Organization of America." Dr. Wise's grievances were threefold: last month's World Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, had been a "collection of personal hatreds and rancors and private ambitions"; it had immoderately rebuked both Britain and the U.S.; it had ousted Dr. Wise's good friend Dr. Chaim Weizman from the presidency of the W.Z.O...
...fiery Spanish Loyalist, hid out in France during the war, performed at Loyalist benefits. Now 70, he has announced that he will never play publicly again until Spain is liberated from Franco. Jacques Thibaud, less politically minded than either, gave concerts in Vichyfrance, but also performed clandestinely in Switzerland and Spain. In France, aging Jacques Thibaud is regarded with somewhat the same mixture of admiration and affection that U.S. audiences feel for Thibaud's close friend, Fritz Kreisler...