Word: oslo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deal with the debts (except to arrange at the proper time some technical humbug permitting borrowing to recommence if the U. S. investor will lend); and because the Chadbourne Sugar Restriction Plan has cracked up with overproduction rampant, there was interest last week in the so-called "Oslo Group" led by Premier Colijn of The Netherlands...
...Oslo is the capital of Norway and there is a placid affinity of minds among Netherlanders, Norwegians, Luxembourgers, Danes, Belgians, Swedes and Finns. These neighbors are so good and so unable to defend themselves that they recently decided at The Hague to revive the Oslo Convention of 1930 under which they were all to have lowered tariffs among each other. In principle the Great Powers too are strong for such good neighborliness, in practice their statesmen feel helpless to down either tariffs or rearmament, and so last week they played up the Oslo Group benignly...
First business at hand for Premier van Zeeland this week was International. Representatives of the "Oslo Group" arrived for four days of conference and Reich Economic Minister Hjalmar Schacht was due from a "World Bank" meeting at Basle to urge more traffic in raw materials between Belgium and Germany...
Louisiana State University's huge Jack Torrance made his world record shot-put of 57 ft. 1 in. in 1934 at Oslo. If he had made exactly the same throw at New York or Rome, the shot would have traveled one inch farther; if at Madras, two inches farther-because of differences in the force of gravity. Moreover, since the field at Oslo was not checked by surveying instruments, there may have been an undetected inch of deviation from absolute flatness. In that case the throw would have been an inch longer or shorter, depending on whether...
...others could. When Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier was first put on in London she enchanted Covent Garden with her girlish Sophie. Next year Londoners heard her again in The Magic Flute, called her one of the best Mozart singers alive. She had three glorious years in Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen...