Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apreciate his wry humor when he says, "It is reported from Oslo that the Norwegian Noble Committee has reached a decision on its annual peace award. It has decided not to award a peace prize for 1939." You are sure of his sincerity when he says, "How long these people will stand up to this sort of thing, I don't know, but tonight they're magnificent. I've seen them, talked with them, and I know." You realize what the spirit of the Londoners is when he says, "Today I walked down a long street . . . In one window...
...British were able to announce the destruction of fish-and whale-oil plants; the sinking of eleven ships totaling 18,000 tons, including an armed trawler and a good-sized supply ship; the capture of 215 Germans and ten Quislingist Norwegians; the carrying off of 300 Norwegian patriots who wanted to fight for Britain; and-here was the propaganda-the distribution to Norwegians of food, cigarets, chocolates, wool yarn and high heart. From Stockholm it was reported that the Germans answered this bagatelle with considerable fury: by fining the Svolvoerans 100,000 crowns, burning the homes of the escaped patriots...
...exiled Royal Government of Norway advanced ?50,000 last week to help keep the war-orphaned Norwegian Lutheran missions going in China, the Cameroons, South Africa. Manchuria, Madagascar. Cut off from home support by the Nazi invasion, the Norse missionaries will get their aid through the Rev. Johan Arnd Aasgaard of Minneapolis, president of the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America since 1925. Administrator Aasgaard believes this is the first time in history that a government has financed a church's foreign missions, considers it a dramatic proof that "the Allied forces are fighting for Christianity and democracy...
Please be advised that Britain has not taken over a single Norwegian ship. While fighting was still going on in Norway, the Norwegian Government requisitioned all Norwegian ships in Allied and neutral waters totaling about 1,000 ships of 4,000,000 tons. The Norwegian Shipping & Trade Mission, under a shipping director, was established, and this mission later moved to London. Branch offices have been established in New York, San Francisco, Montreal and Halifax. All Norwegian ships are operated by the Mission, they are manned with Norwegian sailors, and they are all proudly flying their Norwegian flag. It is true...
...result of a crackup in his new Cessna), he values his life more now. Last week he estimated Lear Avia's 1940 earnings: in excess of $100,000 on sales of $968,000. And sales are no longer a problem. His $5,000,000 backlog includes South American, Norwegian and Canadian orders. To help fill them Lear has a new factory in Hollywood (making electric motors with magnetic clutches), plans another near Dayton...