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...Soviet Union," said Hannu Haukka, president of a Finnish religious broadcasting company. Holy understatement! He had just signed a contract with Soviet television to air Bible-based cartoons, right before the evening news...
...bought us each a Budweiser, and I put my foot back on the stage, and my black hat on the table. The hat is important to the story, so it's worth explaining: I grew up with a series of Finnish children's books about the Moomintroll family...
...minute speech to Finnish business leaders, politicians and other guests on the second day of a three-day visit to Finland, Gorbachev repeated his hope to eliminate nuclear weapons from the 148,600-squaremile Baltic...
...bottle? Well, these familiar trademarks now belong to someone else: the Dutch and the British, the West Germans and the Japanese, respectively. So do such U.S.-born corporate names as Smith Corona, Brooks Brothers and Pillsbury (all British); General Electric TV sets and home electronics (French); Wilson Sporting Goods (Finnish); and Carnation (Swiss). Last year foreign investors acquired nearly 400 U.S. businesses, worth a total of $60 billion. That was 61% more than the previous year and represented a drastic quickening of the pace five years earlier, when overseas buyers took over 111 companies, valued at just $2.2 billion. Foreign...
Unlike Chamberlain, Churchill was determined to go on the attack and persuaded his Cabinet colleagues to stage a spectacular landing in northern Norway. His original scheme was to intervene in the Russo-Finnish war, which Stalin had launched on Nov. 30, 1939. Finland's well-trained and determined army of 300,000 had fought the Red Army to a standstill. Churchill's plan was to land a British expeditionary force at the northern Norwegian port of Narvik, cut across to the Swedish iron mines at Gallivare (which provided Hitler with almost 50% of the iron he needed...