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...brimming storage tanks of the great refinery. They had refused to sign receipts acknowledging that the oil belonged to the new company. The Iranian hope that foreign tankers would move in vanished as the international oil fraternity set up a united front. Somehow, there wasn't a tanker-Norwegian, Swedish or Greek-to be chartered. Captains commanding U.S. and Norwegian tankers already in port refused to sign the receipts, weighed anchor and steamed...
Norway was abuzz with talk about a shocking case: the 32-year-old son of the commander in chief of the Norwegian navy was in jail, charged with being a Russian agent...
...ashore, Sailor Danielsen lost his sealegs, wavered into trouble. On a spree in London one night, he smashed through a glass door in a salon of the swank Dorchester Hotel, where the Norwegian government in exile was meeting. Later, at the same hotel, he tried acrobatic stunts from the chandeliers. At war's end his disciplinary record was so bad that his father, Admiral Edvard C. Danielsen, tossed him out of the navy...
...cockpit, gunned down the runway at Bardufoss, Norway, and headed north towards the Pole. Sealed off from tip to tip, his wings held 865 gallons of gas, enough for 5,000 miles. Soon the sea 22,000 feet below gave way to icy ridges and plateaus. A Norwegian Air Force Catalina flying boat patrolling near Spitzbergen gave him a radio call as he whisked past, reported back that Captain Blair was right on course. Hour after hour, the Mustang bored through the blue-grey sunlit haze over the icecap. Blair sat hunched behind his oxygen mask occasionally shooting...
...composer with a predilection for American subjects, Moore chose a hard story of Norwegian pioneers in Dakota Territory. Arnold (Down in the Valley) Sundgaard carved a three-act libretto from Norwegian-born Novelist O. E. Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth...