Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...monetary magician set out from London with a starting capital of ?75 (the legal maximum which may be taken out of the country), after being well briefed by the British resident agent of an international ring. On deplaning in Geneva, he exchanged his pounds for Swiss francs at the official rate of 17 Swiss francs per pound. He picked up a silk shirt and a silver cigaret lighter, reserved one Swiss franc for carfare. Before going on to France, he handed the remaining 1,200 Swiss francs to the ring's Swiss operative (France does not permit travelers...
Lola Ruddy, a Manhattan model,* hitched her wagon to a galaxy: since she was part Irish, part English, part French, part Portuguese, and part Swiss, she figured on claiming the title of Miss United Nations...
...hocus-pocus got a nod of approval from a scientific quarter. Said Dr. Hermann Vollmer of New York in the current Psychosomatic Medicine: suggestion is "at least as effective" a cure for warts as X ray or surgery. He documented his case with the findings of French, German and Swiss dermatologists, outlined his own experiments with over 100 children...
...conjunction with a newly instituted program of the American Swiss Foundation for Scientific Exchange, Inc., Dr. Otto Krayer, professor of Comparative Pharmacology at the Medical School, has been invited to spend from six to eight weeks this summer lecturing and visiting universities abroad...
...prominent American Scientists in all have been asked to make the trip, plans for which are still being formulated, and in return six outstanding Swiss specialists will visit this country. Two Swiss chemists have recently completed, a tour of the United States under the program...