Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...European country that has done the best job of holding down inflation is Germany (see FOREIGN NEWS), whose cost-of-living index rose only 6% since 1953, while production increased 60%. With far fewer economic strains to contend with, Switzerland has held to a 5% rise. Britain has had a 16% rise in that time, now hopes its "hard pound" policy, expressed in courageously raising the discount rate from 5% to 7%, will finally check inflation, permit Britain to build up the gold and dollar reserves it needs to act as banker for the sterling area. In Asia, Japan...
Spanish Romanesque paintings were executed between the 11th and 13th centuries, when Western European man was emerging from the dark ages toward the high noon of Gothic glory. Inspired by itinerant artists who traveled from Italy to Switzerland, the Rhine basin, France and Spain, the Catalan painters in their early Romanesque works depicted intense, embattled faith, open to the ever-present terror of eternal damnation and filled with awe in the presence of a stiff, remote, aloof...
...owns General Aniline & Film Corp., the huge chemical firm that has been a bone of contention ever since World War II, when it was seized by the U.S. as enemy property (TIME, Oct. 14). The Swiss claim that the stock of the $163 million company rightfully belongs to Switzerland's Interhandel holding company, which ran General Aniline before World War II. The U.S. insists that Interhandel was merely a front for Nazi Germany's I.G. Farben...
...main post office caught the overwhelming frustration of an archaic system, dispirited employees and a staggering, endless load of work. They also recorded pent-up grievances of clerks, letter carriers and their boss, Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield, presented the contrast of smooth modernity in the mails of Switzerland and The Netherlands and such private U.S. businesses as United Parcel Service, explored the problems of whether and how the post office should pay its own way-instead of losing $2,000,000 a day. Murrow gave both sides of such thorny issues as whether to charge more for magazines...
...part suit Switzerland demanded that the U.S. either return General Aniline to the Swiss Interhandel holding company that ran it until 1942 or submit the case to an international panel of arbiters. The U.S. in the past has refused arbitration. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has been talking a lot lately about the rule of law in international affairs, but last week the Department said it will not decide whether it will let the case go to the World Court until after it is formally served with a copy of the suit...