Word: danish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Copenhagen the Danish Rifle Syndicate admitted filling a small South American order for $50,000 worth of machine guns. They seemed to be destined for Paraguay, which is still fighting Bolivia in the Gran Chaco (TIME...
Instantly Danish correspondents were on their toes, cabled reams of rumor to Scandinavia's big bacon barons...
...many-motored DO-X, back in Germany after her winter in the U. S., roared over Fehmarn Belt last week, a strait between Schleswig-Holstein and the Danish island of Laaland. Down below was a little grey barkentine plowing through the water with all sails set: the German naval training ship Niobe. It was a bright sunny afternoon but the air was rough. The DO-X dipped low over the Niobe in salute, then hurried...
...across Baffin Bay, across Melville Bay. Atop Cape York the jaunters found plenty of rocks but little labor to haul cement and scaffolding up the heights from the Morrissey. Seeking Eskimo helpers, the party went down the hill and over to Thule. a nearby village where lives Hans Nielsen, Danish Governor of the region...
Into the dickering pot Stanley Melbourne ("Handsomest") Bruce threw an Australian ultimatum in the form of a 5,500-word handout to the Press. Mentioning Argentina, Russia and Denmark by name, fighting Mr. Bruce demanded that the Mother Country cut down her imports of Argentine meat, Danish dairy products and Russian wheat and lumber either by Dipping her tariff or by a quota system forcing buyers in the United Kingdom to import more of these things from the Dominions, especially Australia. Mr. Bruce added a long list of articles (notably meat) on which Australia wants preferential treatment, asserting of course...