Word: scandinavia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Appointed its Foreign Minister (in July 1940, while he was visiting the U.S.), Jan Masaryk impressed the democratic world with a concise European program: a disarmed, decentralized German confederation; Central Europe reorganized around a Czech-Polish confederation; similar regional federations in the Balkans, in western Europe, in Scandinavia; all these regional federations ultimately to form a Federation of Europe; inclusion of Russia in a cooperative European settlement...
...Uneasy Scandinavia ticked off Govorov's real and potential gains...
...Scandinavia: Grenville Ross Hoiden, 34, special assistant to OPA General Manager Chester Bowles, onetime Harvard economics instructor...
Unknown Elements. But the most eminent U.S. meteorologist, Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby, head of Chicago's Institute, smiled skeptically at these notions. Said he: "There's too much of the popular science approach to the geophysical sciences in the U.S. We are far behind Scandinavia, where these sciences are most advanced, because we think in terms of controlling chemicals in a laboratory. We should try instead to establish a delicate balance between man and his environment...
...billion was placed in Europe and another $4 billion virtually at home in Canada. Only $117 million went to all Africa. Of the $5 billion that went to Europe, $2 billion went to Germany and England, nearly $2 billion more to France, Italy, the Low Countries and Scandinavia. The parts of Europe most in need of development shared the meager remainder. U.S. investments in backward, ambitious Poland were $177 million by 1930; British and French investments there were $345 million. Of the mere $1 billion placed in all Asia, $445 million was in Japan alone...