Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Copenhagen, Denmark...
When the war began, Russia had 137 weather stations north of the Arctic Circle; Norway had 75, Denmark five. From Greenland to Alaska there were only seven little weather stations-four of them in Canada. U.S. Army air bases established during the war left enormous areas still uncovered...
...Bells. In the steep forests of Norway, German guerrillas still skulked and fought. In Denmark, for want of transportation, practically the only food surpluses in Europe were near standstill. Only butter, eggs, meat moved, thinly, to England, Norway, the U.S. Army...
Lauritz Melchior, Metropolitan Opera tenor, got back from Denmark with a brand-new Commander of the Cross of Danneborg decoration and a story about King Christian's escape hatch (never used). When he was a palace prisoner of the Germans, the King had a secret tunnel built from the palace to the rear of the royal washerwomen's dormitory, at the edge of the grounds...
...announced a "rape wave" in suburban Evanston. Actually, rape had increased only slightly, but there was now more space in which to write about it. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer sent a reporter to "rediscover" the State of Washington, another to look up kinfolk of Seattle Scandinavians in Norway, Sweden, Denmark...