Word: finlander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sovereign states which owed $144,000,000 to the U. S. on June 15 last week only small, green, watery Finland, self-styled ''Land of 40,000 Lakes," showed sufficient character to pay her War debt in full...
...Finland's war was a savage, desperate, last-ditch fight in 1919 to hurl Russian Bolsheviks back from her beloved lakes. Finnish valor perhaps saved pink & socialist Scandinavia from going red. Exhausted though victorious, Finns obtained from the U. S. Congress credits for grain and other foodstuffs, ran $8,281,900 into debt. Three years later when President Harding offered to fund all Europe's War debt on the basis of '"capacity to pay''-payments to be made over 62 years-Finland was the first state to send a delegation which signed on Washington...
None of this year's grain "racers" had a radio. Ten of them belonged to Captain Gustaf Erikson, a retired master mariner of Mariehamn, Finland. Though every ship had a 100 A-1 rating at Lloyd's, one or more might vanish, capsize or stagger into port without masts. Running far out of the steamer routes, few planned to show lights at night. Most would take four months, some five, a few would crowd to get in under three months...
Britain signed with the understanding that none of her recent trade agreements-not only those signed three weeks ago (TIME, May 8) but those signed last week with Norway and Sweden and one still under discussion with Finland-is to be affected...
...ordinary windmill will turn only when facing the wind. The late Capt. F. J. Savonius (died 1931) of Finland invented a mill with S-shaped arms which could catch wind from any direction...