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...Propaganda Minister no longer. The last to see him were the villagers of Vage, a tiny hamlet on the Norwegian coast. In the dark of a Sunday evening, Lunde, with his wife and a district party leader, arrived in Vage to take the little ferryboat that went across the fjord to Andalsnes. The chauffeur drove the limousine out on the slip, got out and strolled aboard the ferry. An instant later, slip and ferry parted. The car teetered, plunged into the icy water...
...crest of a gigantic air bubble bobbed the head of the party leader. Lunde and his wife stayed down. The Norwegian skipper of the ferry dived into the fjord, came up gasping, dived again. But it was not until 7 o'clock the next morning that the bodies were hauled up with...
...five months. Hordes of field mice-as many as 80,000 per acre-once appeared in southern California, disappeared after devastating the countryside. In pre-Nazi Norway a steamer ploughed for a quarter of an hour through shoals of mouselike lemmings swimming out to sea via the Trondheim Fjord. In France great plagues of voles (short-tailed field mice) appear approximately every five years, then abruptly disappear. One of Germany's periodic infestations of mice and voles broke out in 1917, ravaged crops so badly that they materially contributed to the nation's final collapse...
...Liitzow) and eight destroyers. Lunin maneuvered daringly through the screening vessels, sent two torpedoes crashing into the mighty Tirpitz. Immediately the lesser ships drew close about the wounded one. All slowly turned back toward Norway and later were sighted hugging the shore, still plowing toward their anchorage in Trondheim Fjord...
...cruiser of the 9,100-ton Pensacola class and a U.S. destroyer, somewhere between Norway's North Cape and Spitsbergen, had scored hits on two more U.S. destroyers. Another Nazi news-bomb announced the sinking of a 2,000-ton merchant vessel and an icebreaker in a Spitsbergen fjord...