Word: finlander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...track fans in the stands at Turku, Finland stirred unhappily at the announcement: both California's Don Bowden, first American miler to crack four minutes (3:58.7), and New Jersey's Tom Courtney, world record holder in the half-mile (1:46.8), were passing up the 1,500-meter event. The crowd had come out to see the Americans and Scandinavians push each other to a new record on the fast, hard-packed track where Australia's John Landy set the mile record of 3:58 in 1954. Fidgeting, the fans sat back to watch the Scandinavians...
...Finns in the past 18 years have fought two wars with Russia, both beyond their capacity to win. The first was the Winter War of 1939 when Finland thrilled the world by holding the Red army at bay for 3½ months. The second, and the subject of this impressive novel, took place 15 months later, and found Finland alongside Hitler in his invasion of the Soviet Union. Author Linna, a textile worker who served in that war, writes with a ferocity and explicitness certain to jolt the half-patronizing image of "plucky little Finland" held by many Americans...
Author Linna's bitter book is a huge bestseller in Finland. American readers should be impressed by his terse descriptions of infighting, and grateful for the absence of the detailed flashbacks to peacetime life that have become the curse of war novels. There are some stereotypes but also some fresh, vivid portraits: Rokka, the veteran of the Winter War, who will fight his own way or not at all; Honkajoki, the eccentric pedant, who infuriates his officers by carrying a longbow into battle; Lahtinen, the Communist sympathizer, who wins a medal for bravery, yet takes a perverse pleasure...
Countries represented include the Belgian Congo, Ceylon, China, Denmark, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaya, the Netherlands, Pakistan, the Phillipines, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Vietnam, and the United States...
...Feet. Today's Europe, revived by U.S. aid but no longer dependent on it, proudly stands on its own feet. From 1948 to 1955 Europe lifted industrial production by 76% (v. the U.S.'s 33%). West Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Finland and Turkey are producing 50% more than they did before the' war. In Great Britain, whose rate of productivity is generally discussed in gloomy terms, the gross national product is nearly one-third higher than in 1938, real per capita income up at least...