Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...petitioned President Roosevelt to remove Professor Renner from his job as adviser to the Civil Aeronautics Administration. When Professor Renner arrived at Minnesota soon afterward to lecture on geography teaching, Stratosphere Scholar Jean Picard rose to demand what Professor Renner meant by proposing to partition his native republic of Switzerland. Professor Renner haughtily ignored...
...first book fully to report the effect of the Russian war on the German home front was published last week. Earnest young (27) Correspondent Howard K. Smith (U.P., CBS) got the jump on his interned colleagues by walking through the drab, green station doors of Basle, Switzerland on the day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Last Train From Berlin (Cresset Press; London) is mostly the story of what happened in Germany between June 22 and Dec. 6 last year...
...year and a half ago OPM desperately called in all U.S. firms who might be able to manufacture jewels, urged them to have a try at it. For the Nazis had overrun Holland and France, bottled up Switzerland -the countries whence the U.S. formerly imported nearly all its synthetic jewels (as many as 100,000,000 a year). Only one company, Union Carbide & Carbon, volunteered to make synthetics. It alone produced the great volumes of hydrogen and oxygen which are essential in making them...
...Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Esthonia), Czecho-Polska ("already being planned by the Czech and Polish Governments-in-exile" and including Lithuania), a Balkan Union ("Some trouble may be expected from the Bulgars"), Italy (plus Dalmatia, Tunisia, Corsica, Nice), France (minus Alsace-Lorraine, plus the Spanish Basque provinces and parts of Switzerland), an Iberian Union (Spain and Portugal), Russia (with Latvia, and a corridor to the Dardanelles), a German-Magyar State (Germany, Austria, Alsace, part of Switzerland, Hungary...
Ananada Mahidol, King of Siam, Brother of the Moon, Half-Brother of the Sun, Supreme Arbiter of the Ebb and Flow of Tides, and possessor of the Four & Twenty Golden Umbrellas, was quietly at school in Lausanne, Switzerland. There he has been learning English. Next September, when he comes of kingly age (17), he will formally ascend Thailand's Golden Lotus Throne...