Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like an army awaiting H-hour, 150 huge trailer trucks lined up on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River one night last week. At midnight the trucks thundered into Manhattan by bridge and tunnel, fanned out over Long Island and northern suburbs. It was the first time in 70 years that yellow margarine could be legally sold in New York State, the nation's biggest market. By noon, a total of 400 trucks, some of them blaring banners labeled "Operation Oleo," had stocked almost every food store in the state...
What has happened to them all? As many as 40% are dead, according to NATO estimates. Many are still working as slave laborers. A year after the war ended, Russian sources indicated that 2,800,000 Germans, Italians, Japanese, Hungarians and French were working on a northern link of the Trans-Siberian railway. Other prisoners are held over the heads of satellite countries as hostages...
...twelve states in the Midwest, all except Missouri went Republican in the congressional elections of 1950. With the three northern New England states, they form the Republican hard core, which is lined up thus...
...Stockholm in various shapes to convey various messages. To improve communications, one Russian agent equipped Enbom with a radio transmitter, which unfortunately burst into flames the first time the key was touched. To cover up for his numerous espionage trips, Enbom explained to his friends that he was the northern agent for a Stockholm dealer in pornographic literature...
Last week Johan Enbom sat in the witness stand in a Stockholm courtroom, the first of seven Swedes to go on trial for espionage. They had, the government charged, given the Russians secrets of Sweden's vital northern defense line abreast of Finland. Required to stand trial, though he had pleaded guilty, Enbom freely told the whole story. He had been sure war was coming, he explained, and it was his duty to "smooth the Red armies' path to liberate Sweden from the dreaded Western occupation...