Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...danger of fighting with most of the people against them. By the time they woke up to the seriousness of the war, says Author Miller, the French were involved and "the struggle became a war of survival against some of the most formidable odds faced by the island kingdom since the days of the Spanish Armada...
...past 50 years, five potential heirs have dropped out of the succession for the crown of Sweden (usually by marrying commoners). The Kingdom of the Goths and the Wends has scarcely felt their defection. For 41 years the same comfortable King* has sat on Sweden's throne, the same scholarly Crown Prince stood patiently by. Last week, as half a million Swedes lined the streets of Stockholm to cheer King Gustaf V's 90th birthday, it seemed as if this state of affairs might go on indefinitely. Even the horses that pulled the royal coach...
...results were released last week in a 75-page booklet, The Market for United Kingdom Consumer Goods in the United States...
...those 30 miles of falls and rapids that the true riches of the Saguenay lay. Here, the real kingdom of the Saguenay was to arise, an enclave of modern industrialism in ancient Quebec. For in those 30 miles was a drop of 300 feet from the level of Lake St. John to tidewater, and a flow of 50,000 cubic feet a second. From that, hydroelectric engineers generate i^ million kilowatts-enough to make 1,000 tons of aluminum...
...kingdom of the Saguenay, aluminum is king and Arvida is its capital. Named for Arthur Vining Davis, 80-year-old founder of Aluminum Company of Canada Ltd. ("Alcan"),* Arvida has two aspects. As a company town it is one of the best laid out and best run on the continent. Its schools (for adults as well as children) and recreation facilities are topnotch...