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...just before World War I to help start a shipping agency in New York. Within a week, young Hans had chartered a ship, loaded it with grain, and sent it to sea. Later he formed a partnership with a cousin who was in the shipping business in Denmark. The business flourished until World War II (Isbrandtsen became naturalized in 1936), but then their ships were taken over by the allied governments. After that, Isbrandtsen began to buy and charter ships on his own hook, and brought his two sons into business with him. Now he intends to go right...
Such Language. The Assembly's first dispute came over an Indian proposal supported by Russia and her satellites to seat delegates from Red China. A group of non-Communist nations, including Great Britain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Israel and Pakistan also voted for the proposal. Dean Acheson declared that the majority of the U.N. still recognized the Nationalists as China's legitimate government, although he carefully suggested that the Assembly would be able to decide later which of the "two claimant regimes" should be seated...
Professor Westergaard, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, was one of the world's foremost authorities on elasticity the reaction of structural materials to loads and strains. He joined the faculty in 1924 and became a full professor in 1926. He was Dean of the Graduate School of Engineering from 1937 to 1946, and he won many medals and prizes, the latest being the Thomas Row-land Fitch Prize of the American Society of Civil Engineers in January of this year...
Professor Westergaard, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, was one of the world's foremost authorities on elasticity the reaction of structural materials to loads and strains. He joined the faculty in 1924 and became a full professor in 1926. He was Dean of the Graduate School of Engineering from 1937 to 1946, and he won many medals and prizes, the latest being the Thomas Row-land Fitch Prize of the American Society of Civil Engineers in January of this year...
...Denmark, cancer of the esophagus "caused more deaths among persons engaged in hotels and restaurants, and among commercial travelers, than in other occupations." It is commoner in hotel-filled Switzerland than in England. Stomach cancer is commoner in urban than in rural areas in England, but in Denmark the reverse is true...