Word: danish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arctic Revolution. The Hans Hedtoft, a diesel-powered motorship, went down the ways of Denmark's Frederikshavn shipyard last August, small but sturdy and trim. The 2,857-ton freighter had been specially designed for the Danish government to withstand the pounding seas and polar ice of the wildest stretch of the North Atlantic Ocean, off the barren shores of Greenland. She had a double steel bottom, an armored bow and stern, and was divided into seven watertight compartments; she carried the most modern instrumentation, from radar to gyro, from Decca Navigator to radio-equipped life rafts. Her veteran...
...uneventfully at Godthaab, capital of Greenland, and one day last week put to sea again bound for Copenhagen on the homeward leg of her maiden run. On board were 40 crewmen, a cargo of frozen fish, and 55 passengers, including one of Greenland's two Representatives in the Danish Parliament, and six children. Rounding Cape Farewell, the southernmost tip of the island, known as the "worst in the north" for storms, the Hans Hedtoft struggled against the Arctic currents, icy polar winds and mountainous, 20-ft. seas. Next morning at 11:54 the Hans Hedtoft's radio crackled...
...Soviet dignitary returned from Copenhagen and reported that economic conditions were very bad in Denmark. Surprised, one listener pointed out that Danish store windows were full of goods. "Oh. yes," conceded the Communist, "but the Danish people have no money to buy. There were no lines in front of the stores...
HALIFAX, N.S., Feb. 1--Forty-foot waves and freezing 60-mile winds tore the seas off Greenland Sunday, where searchers doggedly sought some trace of the little Danish ship Hans Hedtoft, believed lost with 95 persons after a collision with an iceberg...
About the time disulfiram (Antabuse) was hailed by Danish doctors as a wonder drug for alcoholism, plant physicians began hearing complaints that workers recently exposed to dust in the manufacture of calcium cyanamide*could not take a drink-it made them sick. Disulfiram proved a disappointment: it was too dangerous for widespread use, required a doctor's close supervision. But last week a medicinal variant of cyanamide was released in Canada for prescription sale, on the strength of researchers' reports that it is almost as potent as disulfiram and far safer...