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Sami: If you say Ekilstuna, it means "the ugly town." [Laughs.] You have to put an "s" in it--"Eskilstuna...
...Underwood came up to watch the inauguration. Simms now starts twelve months of world travel, much of it north and south of the borders. For the first time ever, West European Lions were thick enough to get a man on the vice-presidency ladder: Per Stahl, 42. knifemaker from Eskilstuna, Sweden, who will, in the normal order of Lion growth, become president...
Died. Carl Edwards Johansson, 79, Swedish-born father of hair-splitting precision gauges; in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Be ore he was 32, the shaggy-browed toolmaker hand-forged and hand-polished blocks of steel so internally stressless, externally flawless that they could detect a machinist's error to within 2,000,000ths of an inch (a 2,000,000th is to an inch as an inch is to 31.6 miles). Nicknamed "Jo" blocks, they made possible mass production's interchangeability of parts...
...them to a German air-raid expert for advice on how to build shelters. German "tourists" swarmed over Sweden, especially around the mining districts. Six "philosophy students" were arrested studying the terrain around the fortress at Boden, strongest in northern Europe. Two German agents were nabbed for espionage at Eskilstuna ("Sheffield of Sweden"), another at the gold-mining town of Boliden. A German journalist and photographer named Viese was found to have supplied a Berlin picture agency with 60 detailed photographs of Swedish mining centres and harbors. In 1938 police unmasked a huge Nazi spy network, but no details were...
...Vastmanland. As he shod horses he talked Temperance. After a while he began to write with devout Lutheran fervor against what Englishmen call brandy, Frenchmen eau-de-vie, Swedes Aquavit. Five years before the War, Munktorp's literary blacksmith took the road to greatness, accepted a call to Eskilstuna, where the owner of the Eskilstunakurirers made him Editor...
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