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...took over, Oerlikon was a machine-tool company with few tools, no liquid assets, a work force of 80, and no orders. Biihrle looked around for a new product, bought the patents on a 20-mm. cannon. Within five years, orders for it were pouring in from China, Finland, Japan and South America. By 1936, Bührle bought up all the stock in the company...
...native of Helsinki. Finland, Mikkola participated in both Olympic skiing and track for his country. He began coaching track in Finland around 1910 and directed the Finnish Olympic teams in 1920 and 1924. He joined the Harvard coaching staff in 1921 as an assistant to track coach Bill Binghan. Mikkola became head track coach...
...matter how hard he drove them, College trackmen always had the highest respect for him. Just two weeks ago over 400 of the men he coached presented his wife with a gift of $4100 for a trip to this summer's Olympics for the Mikkolas--a trip back to Finland which Jaakko had always wanted to make
...event of war, the main Russian thrust will probably be directed against the N.A.T.O. forces at the Rhine line. Smaller forces will be thrown against Finland, and the satellite armies of Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria, backed up by Red Army regulars, will descend on Yugoslavia...
...conjunction with the student unions of Scotland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada and Australia has submitted a list of thirteen proposals to democratise the IUS as preconditions for full participation. NSA was in the midst of negotiations to affiliate with the IUS, though having misgivings about its partisan political activity, when the failure of the IUS to protest the firing upon students and the closing of the universities during the Czech coup and the immediate expulsion of the Yugoslavia student union upon the break with Tito with the Soviet Union caused a halt to negotiations...