Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meat prices and the Department of Agriculture criticized the law as fuzzy and hard to police. Although the bill exempted kosher slaughter, Orthodox Jews opposed it as interference with shehitah, the ritual for killing kosher animals. The humane societies rebutted other arguments by pointing out that such countries as Switzerland, The Netherlands and England administer similar laws, predicted that rather than raising prices, new techniques would help packers recover $50 million in meat lost a year through careless slaughter...
...Aerial Phenomena Research Organization of Alamogordo, N. Mex. In its current issue, the Bulletin carried an interview with Jung, whom it described as A.P.R.O.'s consultant in psychology. The Bulletin did give the information that the interview was a reprint of an earlier interview that appeared in Switzerland's Weltwoche in 1954 (TIME, Oct. 25, 1954). The Bulletin version differs considerably from the full Weltwoche one, which may be partially explained by its translation into English for the Flying Saucer Review of London, where the Bulletin found it. As a final touch, Gerald S. Clark, assistant public relations...
...Switzerland. Touchy about their neutrality, the Swiss refused a U.S. request to fly troop transports over their territory, though bankers and businessmen cheered the ability of the U.S. to move swiftly and decisively in the Middle East. But when United Press International's President Frank H. Bartholomew wrote after a visit to Switzerland: "Diplomats and counterintelligence agents say the Iraqi revolt 'was born in Bern,' " government and press alike went through the roof of the Alps. Bartholomew reported estimates that the Reds disbursed $1,000,000 a week to Western European agents through Switzerland, much...
...onetime business pal, Charlie was wont to have his royalties deposited at Manhattan's J. P. Morgan & Co., then transferred to a Swiss banker, who funneled the funds to a dummy corporation set up by Chaplin in currency-careless Tangier. Result: two years after Chaplin settled in Switzerland-and while the U.S. Government was vainly trying to collect more than $1,000.000 in back taxes-he was still getting money from home, as much as $70,000 in a single transaction...
Judicial Nod. In Fribourg, Switzerland, Judge Germain Kolly was fined 110 Swiss francs after Marcel Peiry and three associates-convicted of theft-asked for and got a new trial when they pointed out that the judge had slept through part of the proceedings...