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...Norwegian Ships...
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...
When a grinning, 19-year-old Norwegian named Torger Tokle landed in Manhattan two years ago, he was met by his older brother, Kyrre, who drove him to his farm in Noroton, Conn. Next day, Brother Kyrre was to compete in a ski-jumping meet at nearby Bear Mountain Park. "I yump too," said Torger. Yump he did-and broke the hill record...
Tokle was just another ski rider. But in the U. S. he was a sensation. Here was a greenhorn who could jump 157 ft. on sea legs. He lacked the elegant style of Olympic Champion Birger Ruud and Norwegian Champion Reidar Andersen, two of his countrymen who had broken the trail ahead of him. But Torger Tokle had something. Experts say it is the oomph in his satz, that split-second transition from running to jumping at the takeoff. From knees like coiled springs he gets a tremendous lift-soaring out, out, out, like a baseball hit smack...