Word: oslo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oslo, Norway...
Norway, with its huge hydroelectric resources, is concentrating on a ship-propulsion reactor to end its big merchant fleet's dependence on imported coal and oil. Already there is a 250-kw. reactor near Oslo, operated in cooperation with Dutch scientists...
...reckless rambling and crazy adventure, this modern Viking's voyage to the New World might well be added to the Edda. After the Nazis invaded Norway in 1940, Willie Skrede, 19-year-old Oslo engineering apprentice, skipped to Sweden, hoping to make his way to the Norwegian air force then training in Canada...
Others found the going even worse. Two French teams, starting from Palermo, ran smack into an avalanche that piled six-foot snow drifts on the narrow Alpine roads. Drivers starting from Oslo and Stockholm shuddered through below-zero cold; inch-thick ice formed on windshields. British drivers leaving Glasgow fought snow, fog and black ice on roads that slowed them down so much that an unhappy few missed the boat from Dover to Boulogne...
After the complicated scoring was all worked out, winner in the "General Classification" was the veteran Norwegian team of Per Malling and Gunnar Fadum who drove a Sunbeam south from Oslo...