Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only war trials so far have been conducted by national courts, like the Norwegian tribunal which sentenced Vidkun Quisling. The first international trials will begin at Nürnberg late this month, when 23 top-drawer German defendants are brought to bar. A checklist of some of those already judged by national courts...
...Recent manifestation: an effort to rename leprosy Hansen's disease, after the Norwegian who isolated the bacillus some 70 years...
...addition to oil, Anglo-Norwegian whalers hunting near their home ports hope to bring back whale meat for butcher shops, boast that a new method of quick freezing makes it as tender and tasty as beef...
...foreign whalers had put all but two U.S. ships out of business. Harpooners, who reportedly have made as much as $125,000 a season, were so scarce in the U.S. that Norwegian killer ships had to be hired. Then Congress, prodded by the farm bloc, delivered the final thrust. In 1939 it slapped a 3?-a-pound tax on all oil from whales caught by foreign killer ships after the 33 floating factories of all nations had made their greatest kill ever: some 64,000 whales. Forced to quit, the two U.S. whalers were sold, one to Argentina, the other...
...Fleet. War, which scattered the international whaling fleet, caught the U.S. short of sperm oil, badly needed for lubricating delicate submarine and aviation instruments. Most of the British and Norwegian whalers were converted into tankers and sunk or captured. But the Thorshammer and the Sir James Clark Ross managed to sneak past the Nazis, arrived in U.S. ports. They promptly went to work to keep the U.S. supplied with sperm...