Word: scandinavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Laguerre lunched with a famous British ex-Communist, then he was off to an interview with a Foreign Office official. Back at the office, incoming stories and suggestions from TIME stringers in Ireland, Scandinavia and the main British cities were edited and evaluated for the overnight story suggestion list to the editors in New York...
Lying north of Australia, New Guinea, an island the size of Scandinavia, is populated by an unknown number of fuzzy-haired tribesmen who have no idea of government. The eastern half of New Guinea is ruled by Australia; who should rule the western half was in grave dispute last week. West New Guinea, a strategic prize, may also become economically important when oil and mineral discoveries are properly developed...
...jazz age has its echoes all over the world. In Japan, singers eagerly mimic Ella Fitzgerald while dancers gyrate in the "Fallaway Twist" and the "Natural Hover Whisk." Scandinavia has a local growth of "cool" jazz, and France has an unquenchable thirst for le jazz hot. In Britain, shops are doing brisk business in the "GENUINE 'Mr. B.' Shirt with its wide roll collar as worn by the Famous American Singing Star BILLY ECKSTINE." The Communists are paying their own kind of compliment: in the East German town of Aue last week, Red police jailed members...
...decline, 2.000,000 people last spring came in penitent droves, and 38,447 pledged themselves as converts. Even when they do not understand his language or share his American tradition, people flock to hear him speak short sentences to be echoed in their own language by an interpreter. In Scandinavia, Finland, Holland. Germany and France this summer, 296,600 came. Since 1949, Billy Graham has preached personally to 12 million people and brought 200,000 of them to various stages of Christian commitment...
Bowater built a newsprint mill on the Thames near London, and another near Liverpool, to supply several mass-circulation London dailies. He acquired timberlands and mills in Scandinavia, and as war approached turned to Newfoundland, where he bought International Paper's big plant at Corner Brook, and 7,000,000 acres of timber. At war's end, Sir Eric started diversifying into paper bags, paperboard and other products, which now account for almost 20% of his production. The $250 million Bowater empire now employs 16,000 in some 40 companies spread through eight nations of the free world...