Word: finland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offers 20 summers tours this years, visiting England, France, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Bavaria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Yugoslavia, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Hungary, Poland, Denmark, Scotland, Austria, the Middle East, and Latin American...
Those were the terrifying slogans of the all-powerful, all-seeing Party in George Orwell's grim, grey totalitarian world of Nineteen-Eighty-Four (TIME, June 20). But the news often brings evidence that Orwell is less a satirist-prophet than a chronicler of the present. In Finland last week, on the tenth anniversary of the country's invasion by Soviet Russia, the Communist Party spoke through Professor Vladimir Kemenov, a visiting. Russian "cultural" delegate. Said Kemenov in Helsinki's Communist Työkansan Sanomat...
...exchanges were closed for one day; other countries declared similar holidays.) All the dominions devalued their currencies in proportion; Canada, a dollar country, devalued its dollar 10%. In the colonies the readjustment was automatic. Ireland, Egypt and Israel brought their pounds into parity with Britain's. Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, The Netherlands and Sweden made devaluation moves...
...average gallerygoer the majority of the exhibits looked handsome, efficient, worth taking home. Tubular steel and molded plywood chairs, unornamented chests and tables no longer wore the unfamiliar, revolutionary air which had made an earlier generation snort and settle deeper into its mohair easy chairs. Sample rooms designed by Finland's Alvar Aalto and Manhattan's George Nelson proved that with modern furnishings a home could be simple and yet warm and livable...
...American living abroad, I read with great interest . . . the suggestions of Senator H. Alexander Smith that Finland utilize future war debt payments for exchange scholarships for students and technicians [TIME...