Word: scandinavia
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TRANSPOLAR FLIGHTS between California and Scandinavia may be operating by fall. Following successful trail-blazing flights by Scandinavian Airlines' DC-6Bs, the State Department and CAB have offered approval for the service provided that a U.S. airline is granted the same right...
Kenton and his progressives had thoughtfully scheduled Paris as the climax of a triumphant month's tour of the Continent. Earlier, from Scandinavia to Switzerland, they had given 27 concerts in 27 days. In Copenhagen some 10,000 fans stomped their approval so hard that Kenton & Co. began to fear for the floor. Amsterdam fans called them mieters (current Dutch slang for terrific). In Miinster admirers rioted for autographs...
...dumb show with elegant attitudes and virtuoso movement. In this form it was nourished and preserved by the Russians. But there is one major company which still clings to the older, simpler style: the Royal Danish Ballet. Last week the Royal Danes, making one of their rare visits outside Scandinavia, were at London's Covent Garden...
...tractors, horse teams and the work-blackened fingers of peasant women were gathering in ,what looked like the biggest harvest since World War II. French hillsides teemed with blue and green grapes that sent the price of wine toppling. In Germany, cattle and hogs were plump and plentiful; in Scandinavia, furrows bulged with a splendid crop of potatoes. Everywhere, except in Switzerland, where the spring frosts were harsh, Western Europe's harvest waxed fat and mellow, promising its people that next winter none need starve...
...doomed. The center, caught between the stridencies of right & left, and forced to choose, would have to go left. Communists and Socialists had made a name in the undergrounds and concentration camps. And in the end, Socialism, the wave of the future, would triumph, as it had in Scandinavia long before, and in Britain only recently...