Word: finnish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...carried in sail are Chilean nitrates and Australian wheat and wool. There is no hurry about getting cheap wheat from Australia to Britain. Sailing ships give free warehousing. On the long slow way the price of wheat may go up. Every winter since the War a fleet of Finnish, Swedish and German windjammers has set out for Britain from Australia, scupper-deep with Australian wheat. They call it the "grain race...
Last January Australians watched the first two of the old steel-hulled plugs sail off on the 15th race, reviving ghosts of the oldtime crack clippers, booming under sails like cumulus cloud banks. Until late April the others followed: 16 Finnish, two German, one Swedish, carrying a total of 900,000 bags of wheat. Some were so old that the sailors could not chip the hull for fear the chipping hammers would go clean through the plates. Built from 16 to 45 years ago, sailed on a capital representing scrap value, the ships were uninsured.† Their masters knew they...
...March. In 1931 the Australian writer-adventurer Alan Villiers with a syndicate, bought her, from a Hamburg break-up yard. A onetime German nitrate trader, she was about to become razor blades and sardine cans. A fellow-buyer was the man Villiers calls "the best sailor in the world": Finnish Captain Ruben de Cloux, 48, 35 years in sail, 18 years in the Cape Horn traffic. Captain de Cloux would like to be a sailor on the moon because the moon is smaller than the Earth to sail around. Outward bound for Australia after the 1929 grain race...
Cold ran the blood of a Finnish farmer one day in 1931. His 2-year-old child had been playing outside his cottage near the Russian border. Now the baby was gone. He and his friends searched far & wide, found no trace...