Word: scandinavia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...able to defend her capital or her boundaries for more than three days. Premier Stauning is now expected to push through a National Defense Act to increase Denmark's army & navy, to buy war materials. Most Danes trust that Britain would never allow Germany to invade Scandinavia but they are taking no chances. And it was with more than passive resistance in mind that Sweden's Foreign Minister lately declared: "It is my opinion that the peoples of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland will create a northern entente...
...called "sterling area" (chiefly Britain and Scandinavia) the five years are about up, but the B.I.S...
Espana. British freighters meanwhile were running General Franco's blockade of Bilbao with impunity, making preparations to evacuate as many women and children as possible to France, England and Scandinavia. Out of Bilbao harbor last week came the British freighter Knitsley, loaded with Basque iron ore for Welsh steel mills. Six miles offshore the Rightist destroyer Velasco and the Espana, only battleship in General Franco's navy, steamed up, the Velasco firing shots across the Knitsley's, bow. With helm hard alee the Knitsley started to run back to the shelter of nearby Santander, still held...
...familiar, choppy steps across the stage and mounted the podium, she faced 200-odd singers as ruddy-faced, golden-haired and Nordic as herself. At her feet, lost in the dusk and their black dresses, sat the 80 women who make up her orchestra. To pay her respects to Scandinavia and the thousands of Chicagoans who came from there, Conductor Sundstrom had planned a predominantly Swedish program, packed the stage with Chicago's Swedish Choral Society, brought with her Swedish Contralto Gertrud Wettergren, the big, brown-haired, rawboned Valkyrie who first sang with the Stockholm Opera in 1922, took...
...Copenhagen a sight in the main square made Dr. Parran pause with admiration, for "along with advertisements of department stores, model houses, parks and other attractions of the city was posted the list of names, places and hours of all venereal disease clinics." In Scandinavia Dr. Parran also found that practically every case of syphilis was traced to the individual from whom it was contracted. In the U. S. only New York State tries to make a systematic search for the original source of infection. With his $8,000,000 Social Security fund, Dr. Parran is trying to make other...