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Word: flints (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Denmark helplessly at the mercy of Germany, Finland desperate, and the cave-digging Swedes still uncommitted to a scrap for Scandinavia, Norway delivered what looked like a spunky slap at the glowering Russian Bear by baldly reversing the Russian view of the City of Flint case and turning the ship back to its U. S. crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Bitter Pills | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Like a scared mouse scuttling along a kitchen wall, the celebrated little U. S. freighter City of Flint hugged the rough Norwegian coast last week as it crept down from Tromsö. The Government of Norway, not the least like a skittish housewife in its presence, detailed the mine layer Olaf Tryggvason and a torpedo boat to watch her. Off a fiord north of Bergen, the German prize crew requested that because of a sick man aboard, it should be allowed to put in at Haugesund, 60 miles south of Bergen and last port before the jump-off into British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Mouse Free | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

BERGEN, Norway--The American freighter City of Flint, shunted about the seas since its capture a month age today by the German pocket battleship Deutschland, will unload its cargo here and sail for the United States as soon as possible, Captain Joseph A. Gainard said today...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 11/10/1939 | See Source »

BERGEN, Norway--Captain Joseph A. Gainard of the American steamer City of Flint conferred tonight with Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, U.S. Minister to Norway, as to whether the ship will brave new dangers in the war zone or speed home to the United States...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 11/7/1939 | See Source »

OSLO, Norway, Tuesday--The Norwegian Government, rejecting Germany's demand for "immediate release" of the Nazi prize crew taken from the American steamer City of Flint, announced early today that the Germans will be sent to a concentration camp...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 11/7/1939 | See Source »

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