Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SWITZERLAND may become the first nation to return to a partial gold standard. With more gold than is needed to back their currency 100%, the prosperous Swiss will experiment by minting gold francs in 25 fr. ($5.83) and 50 fr. ($11.66) denominations, will start off by issuing 50 to 100 million francs worth of gold coins...
...only guess unassisted-and the guesses were dark beyond belief. Cyril, the elder, got a glimmer of the truth from a glance at newspaper headlines, but even he felt it necessary to keep the facts from his brother. All the boys knew, as they were spirited away first to Switzerland and then to Germany, was that their father "had had a great deal of trouble" and was not, to be mentioned further...
Having grown up in Switzerland, I enjoyed your story [Aug. 9] on Businessman Gottlieb Duttweiler . . . After World War II the Swiss government decided to continue egg rationing indefinitely, saying it was impossible to produce more than the 1½ eggs per month each Swiss had been allotted during the war. Duttweiler promptly made a deal to import several million eggs, sold them unrationed through his stores, and made the government look awful silly-needless to say, egg rationing was . . . canceled...
...Bern, Switzerland, a band of tight-lipped Russians rolled up an overwhelming lead in the fifth European Games (Europe's off-year Olympics) despite their wrong-way marathoner, Ivan Filin. who dogmatically swung left as he entered the stadium for the last lap, and lost out to Finland's Veikko Karvonen, who had no qualms about right-hand turns. In what may be his last appearance on the track, Britain's Roger Bannister loafed to an easy victory in the 1,500-meter run. His time...
...AMERICAN week was staged (without government sanction) in Switzerland by 3,000 watchmakers as a protest against the U.S. boost in watch tariffs. Some shopkeepers refused to sell American cigarettes, nylons or Coca-Cola...