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...Swedish telephone operator is expected the sort of unstinted satisfaction which a Swedish housemaid gives by shining the family shoes every day, doing the household wash and energetically scrubbing such members of the family as may deign to take a bath. Last week the telephone companies in Stockholm and Gothenburg announced a new era of luxurious telephoning typically Swedish...
...Superseding the earlier and somewhat similar "Gothenburg system...
...soot begrimed the upper deckhouse; the engineer had on a stiff collar; the attendants who stooped among the glinting wheels and thrusting, noiseless pistons of the engine room, tried not to get their cuffs dirty and succeeded. For this was the Gripsholm, arriving on her maiden trip from Gothenburg, Sweden, the first direct oil-burning* liner to cross the Atlantic. The motive power is generated by two double-acting six-cylinder Diesel engines of a new design, the largest ever built, which use crude oil for internal combustion approximately as an "automobile uses gasoline. Each engine drives a propeller...
...Hague and at Gothenburg, Sweden, between Aug. 12 and 24, the Congress of Americanists, in two sessions. The Americanists, students of the story of America, historic and prehistoric, have among their number many nationalities and represent many fields of research...
...fine arts section, students will have an opportunity to study the whole range of Scandinavian art. There will be an inter-Scandinavian exhibition, including work of the living Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish artists, a retrospective exhibit of swedish art relating to the West Coast and Gothenburg, a general retrospective exhibit of Swedish art, and several minor art shows, in addition to a striking exhibit of industrial art and art handicrafts