Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pestalozzi, French children will speak in French, Dutch in Dutch, Poles in Polish. Boys and girls from each nation will have their own farmhouses, own foster parents and classrooms. The Swiss do not intend to make good Swiss out of the children-just good Frenchmen, good Dutchmen, good Poles, with perhaps a Swiss accent on international tolerance. When they have mastered a trade, and their homelands are ready for them, the Pestalozzians will return...
Pestalozzi Village is the dream of Walter Robert Cord, 36, an ailing, angular Swiss editor, who has already raised a million Swiss francs ($234,000) or about a fourth of what he needs for the project. Trogen's town meeting voted him the eleven-acre site, overlooking Lake Constance. Swiss students volunteered their labor...
...telephone slaves a Swiss robot now promises freedom. Its name: Ipsophone. This amazing, almost human instrument automatically answers phone calls, gives and takes messages, rebuffs unwanted callers with a busy signal, records long conversations, and faithfully plays back everything it has heard whenever its master chooses to listen...
...machine is a considerable improvement on similar prewar devices, which were restricted to taking messages of less than 30 seconds. A German invention, it was developed during the war by Ernst Keller, a young ballistics expert for the Swiss company which made the famed Oerlikon antiaircraft gun. He worked out an elaborate system of acoustic relays for translating the instructions given the machine into its robot responses...
About 80 Ipsophones (rented at $35 per month) are now in use by Swiss firms. Last week their manufacturer (Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik Oerlikon), just removed from a blacklist of firms which helped the Nazis, was laying plans to market the Ipsophone throughout the world...