Word: oslo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Situation Normal, etc. In Oslo, U.S. Ambassador Charles Bay, fearing the Norwegian winter, asked Washington for a few small electric heaters, got the heating plant for a skyscraper...
...Norwegian carpenter named Martin Lie, leaving his wife and a small son, went off to the fabulous world which Oslo still called new. Driven by the instincts common to migrants of all time in quest of adventure or security or freedom (or simply of wider skies and unfamiliar faces), he sailed toward the west. The hard but hospitable shores received him and he vanished, unknown and untraced, in the fertile chaos of a country's growth. No one ever knew whether he found what he sought. He didn't write home...
Internationalism Lie had known ever since his childhood. He grew up in an exciting era, when the battle for the receivership of the 19th Century had just begun. His mother's boardinghouse in Grorud, near Oslo, was cosmopolitan-Swedish, Finnish, Polish, German, Russian workers paid mother Lie 20? a day for room & board. In the evening, around the table, Trygve heard them talk of the Russo-Japanese War, of the abortive Russian revolution of 1905, of Norway's breakaway from Sweden, of syndicalism and the brotherhood of all workers. In those days Trygve Lie also acquired a faith...
...Prize Day in Oslo and Stockholm. Last week one German-born Swiss and six Americans won a batch of Nobel Awards: for Literature, Physics, Chemistry, and Peace* (see INTERNATIONAL...
Haakon of Norway turned 74; Oslo's celebrating citizens celebrated his 70th for good measure. Because the Germans had arrested people who wore birthday boutonnieres then, they all wore them for his 70th this year...