Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Something Rotten. In Denmark, German authorities clamped down on a vaudeville hypnotist who made six volunteers believe they were Gestapomen, hostages, and saboteurs respectively, then made the Gestapo arrest the hostages and let the saboteurs escape...
...record. Then a soldier emerged from the crowd, handed Ann Curtis a florist's box and grinned. Said he: "Forget the American record. Go for the world's record." So she lowered by seven and a half seconds the world mark of 11:16.1 set by Denmark's Ragnhild Hveger...
...Fund is a plan to stabilize the ratio be tween the currencies of 44 nations (Denmark was not assigned a quota), in an endeavor to protect the 1,500,000,000 people of those nations against slumps caused by a temporary shortage of foreign exchange. The Bank would make available, under most careful safeguards, a great pool of money for the reconstruction or physical improvement of war-damaged or backward areas. For detailed de scription of the two proposed institutions, see below...
...fissure opened by that wedge seemed to point straight to Paris. In northern Italy there was a bad breach that might spread to the weakened Balkan wing of the fort. Smaller cracks were opening within the fortress itself-the result of serious underground strains in France, in Yugoslavia, in Denmark...
...tanks and planes. Next day, upwards of 15,000 joined a general strike, shut down Danish war production. Stores closed, transportation stopped, telephones and telegraphs ceased to function. Crowds tore down pictures of Hitler, made bonfires of Nazi posters, books and pamphlets. Barricades appeared along with the flags of Denmark, Britain, the U.S. and Russia. Exultant Danes mingled scraps of The Star-Spangled Banner and God Save the King with their own sonorous anthem. The second night 700 Danes were killed or wounded. Then the frantic Germans declared that they would call in bombers to destroy the city...