Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Radioactive isotopes, produced at Oak Ridge, Term., are now being shipped by the U.S. to Argentina, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Great Britain, Italy, Peru, Sweden. Russia asked for isotopes, but apparently dropped the idea when she learned the conditions: reports twice a year, free inspection by interested scientists...
Shortly after his appearance at Claridge's, Michael was aboard the Queen Elizabeth, en route to New York. Before sailing he committed himself on another question. "Anne and I," said Michael, "hope to be married soon in Denmark." But even that plan presented complications. By week's end there was bad news for the hopeful young king and his Bourbon princess, who was staying with her mother in Paris. From Rome, Papal Secretary Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, the Vatican's expert on Soviet-dominated Europe, announced that Pope Pius had refused Roman Catholic Princess Anne permission to marry...
...little choice but to cancel the tour," stated G. Wallace Woodworth '24, professor of Music and Glee Club conductor, explaining regretfully that the major part of the trip was to have been though Sweden and Holland. The remainder of the tour consisted only of short three-day jaunts through Denmark, Finland, and Norway...
...sides of streetcars, celebrators sang "Pum pum pum" and the motorman punctuated the "meow" with a clang of his bell. Meanwhile, "There's a cat in the tuba" had become a solid part of Brazilian slang-a rough equivalent of "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark...
Died. Peter de Rochegune Munch, 77, prewar pacifist, Foreign Minister of Denmark from 1929 to 1940; in Copenhagen. He visualized a Scandinavian "oasis of peace," signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler in May 1939-ten months before the Nazi invasion of Denmark...