Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after 3½ years of comparatively peaceful occupation of Denmark, Hitler suddenly decided to apply me final solution to the approximately 8,500 Danish Jews. To start the roundup, the Gestapo chose a date when most Jews would be at the synagogues-the Jewish New Year, or Rosh Hashana, which fell on Sept. 30. Early that evening, Dr. Werner Best, the ranking Nazi in Denmark, was so confident of the outcome that he happily wired Hitler, "Denmark is free of Jews...
...statutory wage "freeze" this month. And even though Germany's downturn has been steeper than anyone expected, the OECD sees a "moderate recovery" in the second half. In turn, the recoveries will tone up the flagging economies of small countries such as Sweden, Denmark and The Netherlands, which depend heavily on exports to Britain and Germany...
Flight test. Intrigued by his son's observation, Jensen passed it on to Ramskou, who immediately recognized its scientific implication. Enlisting the aid of Denmark's royal-court jeweler, the archaeologist collected minerals found in Scandinavia whose molecules are all aligned parallel to each other, just as the crystals are in a Polaroid filter. Ramskou found that one of these minerals, a transparent crystal called cordierite, turned from yellow to dark blue whenever its natural molecular alignment was held at right angles to the plane of polarized light from the sun. Thus, he reasoned, a Viking could have...
Among industrial nations, Austria's schilling (down 2.1%) was last year's most stable currency, and Denmark's krone (down 6.9%) the least. The purchasing power of the U.S. dollar sank 2.8% last year, but its performance during the 1956-66 decade was better: it eroded by an average of only 1.8% a year, the lowest rate among major industrial powers. In little Guatemala, sound management has kept the quetzal from depreciating in the past ten years. A sampling of inflation's global grip...
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