Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remaining history of Lever Bros., after the establishment of Port Sunlight, is largely the history of expansion through branches. Mr. Lever globe-trotted all over the world. Wherever he traveled he left behind him, in strategic spots, a Lever Bros, branch or a Lever Bros, subsidiary. France, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, the U. S.?even China was not too far distant. In 1906 he tried to arrange a consolidation of leading British soapmakers, but the late great Lord Northcliffe raised such an antitrust turmoil that the project was abandoned. Thereupon Mr. Lever sued Lord Northcliffe and other
Sleep is on a level with the body's vegetative reflex functions, according to Switzerland's Walter R. Hess. It is the consequence of a state of excitation of certain portions of the brain. Those portions lie along the same brain strata from which the liver, stomach, etc., are influenced...
...raid emphasized for Jews the significance and need of a meeting, an event, that had taken place two days before, about 1,900 miles away in Zurich, Switzerland. There, outstanding Jews of the world had assembled, for the meeting of the Jewish Council Agency, the new body uniting the Zionist and non-Zionist factions of Jewry (TIME, Aug. 19). Three hours before the fast of Tisha B'Ab began, there had been tears of joy, embracing, glad shouts of "Mazeltov!" (Congratulations) as Zionists and non-Zionists had signed a pledge to work in harmony for the Jewish National Home...
Lake Geneva is fed by Switzerland's snows and icy springs. But its chill did not deter Corry Liebbrand, 21, plump Dutch girl, from wading in at Lausanne early one morning last week. She stroked away westward. All that day she swam, all that night. She was lost for hours from accompanying boats. On she swam. The next evening she reached Geneva, 37¼ miles from her starting place. She is the only person ever known to accomplish the feat. Last year fat Georges Michel, channel-swimming French baker, attempted it, had to give...