Word: scandinavia
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That point is a particularly sore one with American, since it is the only transcontinental U.S. airline that does no business overseas, having given up routes to Scandinavia and West Germany in 1950. "If we had been four times smarter than we were," says American Chairman C. R. Smith, "we might have seen in 1950 what the Marshall Plan would do, and we would have anticipated the European boom." Moreover, American has recently lost out on applications for some lucrative domestic routes, notably Miami-Los Angeles, has added only one major nonstop route, New York-San Francisco, in six years...
...have heard of the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but from where do the poor get the right to a TV set, a car and 89? meat? If we use as a model socialist Scandinavia or Communist Russia, the poor will have luxuries at the expense of the liberty of taxpayers who have earned these luxuries...
...haven, the Huguenots escaping to South Carolina from France's intolerant Sun King. But it was not until 1840 that the tide really began to flow, and it did not ebb for nearly a century. A blight in Ireland and a pogrom in Russia, a famine in Scandinavia and civil strife in South China, starvation in Sicily and crop failures in Greece, a wave of political repression in the Austro-Hungarian Empire-all fed the tide. It crested in the decade 1905-14, when more than 10,100,000 men, women and children poured into the U.S., most...
...whose per capita annual income averages $70. In southern Italy and Sicily, thousands of nullatenenti (havenots) live in caves or open trenches. Poverty is too soft a word to describe the puffed stomachs that are common sights in India, Africa and Brazil's northeast. On the other hand, Scandinavia knows nothing like American slums, and Soviet Russia can claim to have abolished the crasser forms of poverty-but only by imposing on the whole nation a way of life that most Americans today would equate with privation...
...woman is turned down on all sides but has enough money, she can go to Scandinavia, Switzerland or Japan, where a legal abortion is easier to obtain, or to Mexico or Puerto Rico, where abortions are technically illegal but relatively easy to arrange, under medical auspices...