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Instantly Danish correspondents were on their toes, cabled reams of rumor to Scandinavia's big bacon barons...
Meanwhile work in the Junkers plant at Dessau went ahead on planes for Scandinavia, Argentina, the Far East (one-third of all the world's airlines use Junkers planes). Advance orders for both aircraft and engines were heavier than last year. Of the 3,000 employes (one-third of all Dessau workmen) it was indicated that 1,200 would be discharged. Observers doubted that the Reich would let the plant shut down completely, throw more men out of work...
...post office of his native city, Drammen, Author Christiansen has had long to wait for anything more satisfying than critical acclaim. His first novel The Victor won the critics, sold only a few hundred copies. Subsequent plays and novels got high praise, but sales stayed low. Now all Scandinavia is reading Two Living and One Dead. Flawless in outline, crystal-clear as a Norwegian icicle, it deals with psychological subtleties at high tension with almost miraculous precision, without any witchcraft other than an immaculate literary conscience and a knifelike style...
...simply wasting time!" Also restive was Scandinavia, Sweden suspending gold payments last week "until Nov. 1," Norway "indefinitely," Denmark "until further notice." Last to go off gold last week was Egypt. In London nebulous resentment at the gold standard, nebulous notions that Depression can somehow be cured by tampering not only with the standard but with gold itself as a monetary medium crystalized at a meeting of prominent British merchants. Chief speaker: Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen. Sir Hugo is tall, staccato, persuasive. As chairman of British American Tobacco Co. Ltd. he has intimate export contact with that half...
...bleak rocks of Myggbukta (Mosquito Bay), Greenland, recently while a party of five explorers, snug-buttoned in woolies, tacked the Norwegian flag to an improvised flagstaff. The event seemed of only passing interest to the Eskimos and the puffins, but when news of it broke last week all Scandinavia seethed...