Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like the opening scene from Lost Horizon. En route from Munich to Marseilles, a U.S. Army Dakota plane had been caught in an Alpine downdraft, had crash-landed on the Wetterhorn, in a yawning ice bowl just ten miles from Switzerland's famous peak, the 13,670-foot Jungfrau. Marooned at 9,800 feet on the slopes of Rosenlaui glacier was a curious company of twelve people, including an eleven-year-old girl, four women (three were wives of U.S. generals...
From here they will go out on assignments in smaller camps totaling so to 100 children for a four-week season. Time on the job will vary from 12 to 14 hours daily. At the conclusion of this service, there will probably-be time for side trips to Switzerland and Paris...
...only Palestine Jewry but Jews all over the world, in the election of delegates to a new World Zionist Congress, were passing judgment on the wisdom of this strategy of terror. On Dec. 9, the newly elected Congress would meet in Basel, Switzerland, to choose a new Jewish Agency Executive and reframe or reaffirm Jewish policy on Palestine...
...page, English-language tabloid was eight months old and growing fast. Its founders (who almost lost their shirts and their $36,000 capital in the first 90 days) had 23,000 circulation in Italy, were flying 500 copies a day to Athens, lining up outlets all the way from Switzerland to Egypt. For their plant on the busy Corso Umberto, they had bought (for 7,000,000 lire, or $31,000) a modern rotary press...
...situation in Switzerland is the outgrowth of a musical heritage totally lacking in America. Every small city has a conservatory and a symphony orchestra, every house has a piano, and every piano is playing what is still Europe's musical staff of life--Bach...