Word: finland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such projects are not unusual for Finnish students, who are more concerned about profits than protests. The three "unions" to which most of Finland's 45,000 university students belong are among the country's biggest business enterprises. Using membership dues and bank loans, the students have bought a driving school, bookstores, a book publishing company, majority interest in a fertilizer plant, and a 25% share in Amer-Tupakka, a cigarette manufacturer that has annual sales of $11 million. The bulk of the unions' annual income of $7,500,000 comes from their real estate, worth...
University students are sober, dedicated, enterprising, business-minded. Wrong? No, quite right-in Finland...
...penchant for underdogs. "Once I get into a plane," he says, "I feel that I can do just about anything as long as I believe in it." As a young man he flew a Heinkel air ambulance in Ethiopia, helping victims of Italian aggression. When Russia attacked Finland, he signed up as a lieutenant in the Finnish air force. In the Congo in 1960, Von Rosen flew supplies for Swedish troops on United Nations peace-keeping duty. Now a senior pilot for a charter flight service called Transair Sweden, Von Rosen last summer hauled relief supplies to Biafra...
...EFTA members are Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal and the United Kingdom. Finland is an associate member...
...Nordek as a means of strengthening their commercial ties with the rest of Scandinavia and reducing their uneasy dependence on the Soviet Union. As for the Swedes, they see it as a way of broadening their powerful industrial base and moving deeper into the Russian market by way of Finland...