Word: scandinavia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From mid-December 1939 to mid-August 1940 prices fell 16%, their fall interrupted only by the Blitzkriegs against Scandinavia and the West. After each new offensive, prices continued their decline...
Suddenly everything changed. First Finland, then the rest of Scandinavia was blocked off. The price of unbleached sulfite pulp in the U. S. jumped $6.60 a ton. Two months later, with Holland, Belgium and France gone, and Italy in, the U. S. had lost an export market (including Scandinavia) amounting to $568,000,000 in 1939. The stockmarket broke 35 points from May 1 to June 15, lay paralyzed with fear. But the U. S. swung into the greatest production boom in its history...
...camp holds some 1,000 British civilians caught by the Nazis in the Low Countries, Scandinavia, France, on the high seas. Wodehouse is one of a group of 60 who share a long dormitory with double-decker bunks. They are allowed to use the high-walled prison yard at any time. But they must eat, sleep, get up by military schedule. Food is reported to be the same ration given German civilians-one course of stew with bread on the side. There is hot water daily, but baths only every ten days. Prisoners have only the clothes they brought along...
There are no more matches in unoccupied France, LIFE reports in an essay on Vichy this week. Matches came from Scandinavia and the Germans let no more through. Milk, butter and cheese are scarce or nonexistent, for the Germans rule the great northwestern dairy area. No new stores of sugar from the occupied beet-sugar district around Lille are destined for Free France. Free France will eat none of this summer's harvest from the breadbasket of the northern plains. There is still tobacco in the Rhone Valley and Auvergne, but those shops in Provence that still have stocks...
Last year the U. S. was the world's No. 1 pulp importer. Of the 2,026,209 tons it imported, more than half came from Scandinavia. The U. S. is still the No. i importer, but now it is also the No. 2 world pulp exporter, second only to Canada. Fortnight ago the Department of Commerce announced U. S. pulp exports in July hit an all-time high of 65,548 tons, nearly six times a year ago. Raw-materials Watchdog Stettinius added that full-year shipments would total 400,000 tons (mostly to the United Kingdom, Latin...