Word: finlander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Final score: Germany, 286; Sweden, 266; France, 130; Finland, 117; England, 93; Denmark, 57; Belgium, 42; Norway, 42; Poland, 36; America, 6; Rumania...
...bluff, solid man, oddly inconsistent with the cold background of his Treasury office-icy-eyed portraits of former Secretaries, ancient shiny red-plush drapes, a cool white-marble mantel-arrived every morning last week at 7 a.m. (noon in London) to telephone his boss, Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. in Finland, Sweden, Norway; to telephone the men in London who watch the English end of the tripartite monetary agreement. Mr. Hanes had $2,000,000,000 worth of stabilization funds to repulse panicky raids on the franc, pound, dollar...
...Some towns (Juneau, Sitka) are cooler in summer, warmer in winter than St. Louis, Chicago, New York City. Sweden and Finland are in the same latitude as Alaska...
...people in Alaska bought $42,000,000 of U. S. products-more than Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark, Hungary, Ireland, Norway, Switzerland, Poland, Finland, Portugal or Spain, all countries with much greater population, and only slightly less than Russia and Brazil...
Most skippers like to have two weeks or more to get acquainted with strange winds and tides. Skipper Nichols, however, arriving in Finland just a few days before the races started, was not dismayed. He had been sailing boats for almost 50 years-had handled almost every type of windjammer from the 15-footers he used to sail off Oyster Bay in his undergraduate Harvard days to the big Class J boats Vanitie and Weetamoe he skippered in the America's Cup trials in 1920 and 1930, after he had married J. P. Morgan's daughter. Once...