Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Believe-It-or-Notable character is Thomas Harrington McKittrick, 54, of Milton, Mass. and Basel, Switzerland. Though he is a U.S. citizen, and his country is at war, he is a neutral in office hours. For he is the President of the Bank for International Settlements...
...operations consist chiefly of: 1) collecting interest; 2) semi-automatic renewal of maturing investments (no new ones are made); 3) extending limited credits to central banks; 4) handling payments under the international postal agreement and prewar treaties; 5) acting as banker for the International Red Cross organizations operating from Switzerland. Last year the bank had to dip into its reserves to pay its usual 6% dividend of 7,500,000 Swiss gold francs...
Food & Guts. Nazi propaganda has long claimed that Germany's enlarged economic sphere can more than match that of the Allies. But defeat in Africa shook many a German's faith in the Axis economy. A traveler from Germany into Switzerland said that on the day the meat ration was cut again, one German protested: "My God, this and Tunis...
Premier Pierre Laval was reported dickering for a piece of real estate on the shore of Switzerland's Lake Geneva-where Byron's famed Prisoner of Chillon ate his heart...
Chessmen. Timesmen are by no means perfect. Daniel Brigham, in Switzerland, has often been fooled by German propaganda and has repeatedly missed accuracy, spurred by phony tips and his own imagination...