Word: andersens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earn $6,000 to $15,000 apiece in the five-month season, live like Hollywood stars in Norway's whaling capital, Sandefjord. For the business depends on their art, finding whales and killing them. Two years ago Germany (world's biggest whale-oil user) signed Harpooner Lars Andersen, Norway's ace gunner, to a three-year contract at a reputed salary of around $125,000 a season...
Last year Norway's Birger Ruud won the U. S. title. The year before, his brother Sigmund won it. This year the Ruud Brothers remained at home but another Norwegian, 2 -year-old Reidar Andersen, from the same little silver-mining town of Kongsberg, crossed the Atlantic to take part in the U. S. championship...
...riders" (jumpers) are judged on form and distance (in two jumps). At last week's championships the 20,000 spectators who gathered in St. Paul's Battle Creek Park held their breaths when it was Reidar Andersen's turn. He is credited with one of the longest leaps on record (340 ft.) and his form is said to be the world's most magnificent...
What they witnessed was perhaps the most beautiful performance of ski jumping ever seen in the U. S. Slanting through the air, bending forward obliquely from his ankles, Reidar Andersen outjumped all his rivals (193 ft., 197 ft.), so impressed the judges that he was awarded 234.45 points, just 5.55 short of the highest score possible in a tournament...
Died. John Sanderson Dalziel, 98, wood engraver, friend of Charles Dickens, son of one of Dickens' publishers, illustrator for Dickens and Hans Christian Andersen; in Denver, Colo...