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...Including some in Vienna, Paris, London, Oslo, West Hartford, Conn, and Manhattan (where a black swastika was smeared across fashionable Temple Emanu-El on Fifth Avenue...
Automatic Foreman. Machines Bull was founded in 1931 by Vieillard, then an adding-machine-company engineer. He bought the patent rights to a type of punch-card machine, which had been willed to Oslo's Cancer Institute by Norwegian Inventor Fredrik Bull. With only $140,000 in capital, Vieillard soon needed more financing, sold a 70% interest in the company to the wealthy Callies family (paper mills), closely related to the Michelin and Citroen family. With new capital, the company plunged into research, soon turned out a tabulator capable of writing 150 lines a minute when other tabulators were...
Last week Norway observed the centenary of Hamsun's birth amid hesitant signs of a Hamsun renaissance. His publisher brought out a 33-volume jubilee edition of his works; the literary magazine Vinduet published a special Hamsun number; the Oslo university library opened an exhibit of Hamsun letters and manuscripts; Oslo theaters scheduled revivals of Hamsun's dramas. On the anniversary day, three flags flew-at Hamsun's farm, at the university, at the publisher's office...
...Italy. Then Italy's Nanny said she had fallen down and grazed her knee, running, and mustn't play. England picked up Turkey, Germany picked up Spain, but Spain's Nanny said she had internal troubles and must sit this one out. England looked towards the Oslo group, but they had never played before, except little Belgium, who had hated it, and the others felt shy. The party looked like being a flop, and everybody was becoming very much bored, especially the Americans who are so fond of blood and entrails...
Signaling U.S. officials in Oslo, local miners quickly began work on extending a small glacier airstrip for the use of U.S. planes. Then the U.S. Air Force got permission from the Norwegian government to send out search planes from its base near Reykjavic, Iceland and from U.S. bases in Germany. Later, two U.S. C-130 cargo planes touched down at the makeshift runway at Longyearbyen, unloaded two helicopters that the U.S. hurriedly leased from the Norwegian government...