Word: finland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...area where Chinese Communists now marched almost at will. Three missionaries had been shot to death by "bandits" who hauled them from a bus shouting: "You are Americans, and Americans must die!" They were Martha Anderson of Minneapolis, Esther Nordlund of Chicago, and Dr. Alexis Berg of Finland, all attached to an Evangelical Covenant Mission in Hupeh. Others, who reached Hankow, told their stories quietly, without rancor...
There are many ways of saying "Happy Birthday." Thirty members of the Varsity track team said it with CARE last night when they handed Coach Mikkola a certificate designating that five food packages be sent in his name to needy families in Finland. Jaakko has been coaching here for the past 26 years...
...tiptoe to speak over his wife's shoulder (he also had a bullet hole in his forehead), "I am Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, Tsar of Moscow, Kiev, Novgorod, Kazan, Astrakhan, of Poland, Siberia and Georgia, Grand Duke of Smolensk, Lithuania, Podolia and Finland, Prince of Estonia, Livonia and Bialystok, Lord of Pskov, Riazan, Yaroslavl, Vitebsk and All the Region of the North, Lord...
...currency and currency problems. So far, TLI has had to establish 24 basic subscription prices in local currencies and 60 different newsstand rates. In several countries yearly subscription prices must equal or exceed the total of 52 newsstand copies. In Norway, all subscriptions must be entered through agents; in Finland, through the post office. In New Zealand, no new subscriptions at all may be solicited. In China, because of currency fluctuations, newsstand prices are subject to change weekly...
Bread was a powerful weapon in the New Comintern's fight on the Marshall Plan. The Soviet Union had already committed itself to distribute 850,000 tons among Eastern European satellites-Czechoslovakia (400,000), Poland (300,000), Finland (150,000)-plus unknown amounts to Rumania and Bulgaria. There were also hints of Soviet grain for France, Belgium, Norway in exchange for industrial machinery...