Word: oslo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heretofore Hammerfest has been dependent entirely upon boats for transportation. Norwegian Aero Transport expects the new passenger & mail air-service to cause a step-up in tourist business. Only three years old, the company has lines around the southern coast to Oslo, last year pushed as far north as Tromso. Technical adviser is famed Pilot Bernt Balchen, who lately returned from a survey of U. S. airlines...
...primary purpose of Dean Birkoff's European trip this summer is to speak at the Oslo International Mathematics Congress which opens on July 13, and he will probably not spend more than a few days at Heidelberg. He will not lecture there, his official function being merely to extend Harvard greetings...
France's best was Andre Japy, who in a 100-h. p. monoplane made round-trip flights from Paris to Oslo, Tunis and Oran, Algeria, a four-stop flight from France to French Indo-China. The awards for Italy were divided among Mario Stoppani and two others. Stoppani set a seaplane distance record of 3,103 miles between Trieste and Berbera in British Somaliland...
...practice twice a day, shun smoking and drinking, abide the stares of the curious, she might as well get something out of it besides entertainment and silverware; 2) hers is a consuming desire to be a cinema star. Last summer at the neat Henie country place just outside Oslo, she discussed with her parents her longtime ambition. They heartily approved the idea. Wary of professional managers, including Sonja's faithful swain, 40 year-old Promoter Jefferson Davis ("Tex Rickard of Europe") Dickson, they made contact with a longtime friend named Dennis Scanlon. Mr. Scanlon, who runs a surgical-instrument...
...process justified itself last week. The seven judges soberly awarded Skaters Herber & Baier first prize for a demonstration which supplied in finish whatever it lacked in spontaneity. Viennese Bandleader Karl Schafer, who made the Austrian swimming team in 1928, took the men's title. Blonde Sonja Henie of Oslo won the women's championship...