Word: scandinavia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...routes they will fly, there was some question. Best guess was that: American Export would fly to northern Europe via Foynes (Ireland), Scandinavia and Moscow; T.W.A. would fly to London, then through middle Europe to Cairo; Pan Am would keep its present routes to Lisbon and Foynes, would be given a new route through the Mediterranean to Cairo. In addition, it is expected that Pan Am would get something it has long wanted: permission to pick up passengers in the Middle West, probably at Chicago or Detroit...
More specifically, 169,000 of you plan to go to Scandinavia-166,000 to Russia-237,000 to the Mediterranean. And when we sat down to figure out the total mileage of your travel hopes we ended up with all these zeros -0,000,000,000-preceded by a six. (That equals 133,490 round trips to the moon...
...Ingalls' anchors to windward: ¶ Two fat contracts: 1) to convert three cargo ships into passenger-cargo liners at $4 million each for postwar service to Scandinavia under the Moore & McCormick houseflag; 2) to build three de luxe passenger liners (cost $5 million each) for the Mississippi Shipping Company Inc.'s Delta Line, to sail from Gulf ports to the East Coast of South America. ¶Son Robert, Jr. was in Brazil to drum up orders for new ships for the antique, but vital, Brazilian merchant marine. ¶ Smart and young, Ingalls' engineers were putting the finishing...
...list of guests showed that, at best, Europe's representation will be weak. All of its Governments are provisional or exiled. Only Norway will represent Scandinavia. Last week's invitations skipped Poland entirely. It will be represented at San Francisco only if the compromise Government agreed on at Yalta is formed in time...
...Russia signed only with Norway, an open hint that the Red Army might want to cross the top of Finland to carry on the war with Germany. It was also a suggestion that Russia, with belligerent Finland and Russophobe Sweden on her doorstep, wanted a long-term friend in Scandinavia. The Norwegians seemed willing...