Word: scandinavia
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...frozen Arctic outpost is Hammerfest, but a thriving fishing village of 3,300 persons. Because the Gulf Stream curls across the Atlantic to flick the top tip of Scandinavia, Hammerfest's temperature is warm in summer, rarely gets below freezing even in midwinter, when there is no sun for nearly three months. In the summer, when the sun never sets from May 13 to July 29, remaining visible for 18 hours daily until autumn, there is a busy trade in fish, reindeer, eiderdown, fox pelts, whale oil. Occasionally a cruise ship on the way to bleak North Cape...
...mill in Fernandina, Fla. having an annual capacity of some 100,000 tons. From kraft is made liner board for shipping containers, which account for about one-half of Container Corp.'s unit volume. The company now imports some 32,000 tons of kraft pulp annually, mostly from Scandinavia. In the South pulp can be made for $18 a ton from slash pine. To smart President Paepcke this means that his new Florida mill will cut Container's kraft costs by $10 per ton, save the company some $320,000 per year as its own best customer...
...long as ships were wooden, pine tar and pitch were chiefly used in calking hulls and in tarring rope. The first Englishmen who went to North Carolina in the 16th Century saw in the Southern pine forests supplies of pitch and lumber which would make English shipbuilders independent of Scandinavia for these necessities. The same timberlands 300 years later were yielding two-thirds of the world's turpentine and rosin, the simplest derivatives of pitch. By 1900 there were 1,500 distilling centres in the South with an annual production of 600,000 barrels of turpentine...
...little railroad station perched atop the Fremont Pass at an altitude of 11,000 ft. Gold diggers had discovered the deposits, thought them graphite. Even after they proved to be molybdenum no one was particularly excited because the ore was low-grade (8 lb. to the ton) and Scandinavia and Australia, with small reserves higher in metal content, could more than supply what market there...
...popular in the U. S. Started in Boston six years ago, they were tried in New York last year. This year, the New York, New Haven & Hartford and New York Central are running snow trains, expect to take 2,000 skiers to snow every weekend. Skiing started in prehistoric Scandinavia. Long practiced for utility, it became a sport in 1879, when the King of Norway promoted a tournament between skiers of Telemark & Christiania. The sport of skiing was introduced into Switzerland a few years before the turn of the Century by English sportsmen who had picked it up in Norway...