Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Switzerland booksellers announced a reduction in the price of German war books: From the Karawanken Mountains to Crete from $1.25 to 40?; In Defiance of All Powers (the German High Command's official treatise on Nazi military philosophy) from 65? to 30?; Breakthrough in the West and Victory Over France from...
Seville Cathedral, second largest in the world,* was ready. So was Cardinal Segura, who would tie the knot. But the climax would not come until Dom Duarte, Duke of Bragança, brother-in-law of the bridegroom, could arrive from Switzerland. Wartime traveling is so uncertain...
Irving traveled through the West with two Europeans. Count Albert-Alexandre de Pourtalès, 19, had been sent away from Switzerland to sow his wild oats in some other country. His tutor was Charles Joseph Latrobe, nephew of the architect of the Capitol, a botanist, geologist, musician, artist. With these companions Irving joined a Government expedition bound for Fort Gibson in the Indian Territory (near the present site of Tulsa, Oklahoma). Irving wrote Tour on the Prairies as a result of the trip, after filling five notebooks with his observations. The Western Journals of Washington Irving prints the notebooks...
...western front, from Arnhem to Switzerland, the battle had reached a stage close to stalemate, where some new factor seemed due to be injected and soon...
...loan a failure. They passed along the almost unbelievable gossip that two-thirds of the bonds were apparently bought by: 1) Belgian money fleeing the harsh deflation measures in that country (TIME, Nov. 6); 2) German franc holdings, built up in the occupation, coming back into France via Switzerland...