Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Insulted Norwegian...
...swank Italian liner Conte di Savoia who, winning for the second time in three years, outdistanced last year's winner, a lifeboat crew from the oil-tanker W. C. Teagle, by nine seconds. In last place, far behind the representatives of a United Fruit steamer, a Norwegian-America liner and the Furness Bermuda Line's Queen of Bermuda, was the unfortunate lifeboat crew of the Normandie...
Norway. With Palestine, Malta and Egypt thus strongly dealt with last week, the next British move was to crack at Norway in the dispute over whales (TIME, Sept. 7). Britain's whaling fleet, which is normally manned by Norwegians, remained last week tied up in a fjord near Oslo. Both the Norwegian whalers' unions and the Norwegian Government maintained that British soapmakers, who own many of the whaling ships, want to kill whales at such a rate that the great mammals would soon be exterminated. London papers last week described the British Government as having decided to brandish...
...whaling simply do not exist to man the British whaling fleet today, it could perfectly well be sent to Southern waters with British crews who could learn to hunt whales as they went along. In case the British whaling ships actually are sent south now with green crews, Norwegian whalers vowed last week that they will send their ships and experienced crews speeding ahead to the Antarctic and start a free-for-all destruction of the whale...
Since this is the season at which whaling ships should start for the Antarctic; since the striking Norwegian seamen refused last week to let British seamen board the whalers in Sandefjord; and finally since it seemed unwise to use British warships, Unilever Ltd. finally chartered seven British seagoing tugs. These were sent churning across the North Sea with orders to hitch onto empty British whaling ships if possible and tow them off to England or Iceland, where perhaps competent crews could be signed for whaling...