Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Denmark...
...supply U.S. housewives on washday, six U.S. companies and nine competing foreign nations manufacture spring-operated clothespins at the rate of 791 million a year. Last week, to please the six U.S. companies-and protect a market worth less than $4,000,000-at the risk of offending Sweden, Denmark, West Germany, Yugoslavia and five others, President Eisenhower doubled the tariff on imports of spring clothespins to the U.S. Concurring in a Tariff Commission finding that domestic industry was "injured" by rising imports, he raised the tariff from 10? per gross to 20? per gross, to give "appropriate relief...
Some of these Americans lived on farms in northern Denmark; others stayed in mountain villages in Austria. But there were some common features. Each Experimenter spent a month's "homestay" living as a member of a foreign family, and a second month of group travel in his Experiment country...
...Against Common Sense." In his 72 years Niels Bohr has probably received more awards, prizes, decorations, honorary degrees and memberships than any other living scientist. In Denmark he is a Knight of the Elephant, close below the royal family in official social precedence. Although past the age for pioneering research, he is still a powerful influence among his scientist colleagues...
...Baker." After the Nazis overwhelmed Denmark, Bohr and his wife slipped aboard the fishing boat Sea Star and escaped to Sweden. Eventually he showed up at Los Alamos, the secret New Mexico laboratory where the first atom bombs were taking shape, and where he was known as "Mr. Baker." The Gestapo searched his house in Denmark but found no atomic secrets. He had taken most of them to freedom in a small black bag. They missed his Nobel gold medal too. He had dissolved it in a bottle of acid and put it on a shelf to await reconstitution after...