Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kings Gustaf and Christian of Sweden and Denmark met face to face, kissed cheek to cheek for the first time in six years, at a two-family get-together at Denmark's Amalienborg Castle. Sweden's aging Gustaf (87)-whose granddaughter is married to King Christian's son-went by destroyer to Copenhagen to visit his 74-year-old royal friend. Then the royal in-laws of both houses got together for a group picture to make it official...
...Businessmen with prewar trade connections may go to Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Norway, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia and Rumania if their business is urgent...
...Denmark is negotiating for $20 to $25 million for reconstruction...
...passed this idea on to Denmark's great atomist, Niels Bohr, who was just about to leave for Princeton. Bohr told U.S. experimenters about it. They sprang to their atom-smashing machines and quickly confirmed it (TIME, Feb. 6, March 13, 1939). They also stood gallantly back while Dr. Meitner published the first notes on uranium splitting. She called it "fission," a familiar word in biology but a new term for physics...
...below freezing and a summer so cool that a lightly clothed man could walk four miles an hour in sunlight without sweating. The best climate in the world is that of New Zealand. Pretty good is the area including the British Isles, France, northern Spain, Switzerland. Germany, The Netherlands. Denmark, southwest Scandinavia. The U.S. is not even in the running...