Word: scandinavian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present broadcasts in German "are aimed at Switzerland and the Scandinavian countries," Professor Cross explains. The program is on the air between 4 and 5 o'clock Monday afternoons, on a wave length of 11,70 kilocycles or 25.4 meters...
...virtually identical with the British list, for a counter-blockade at sea of war munitions and other supplies destined for Allied ports in neutral vessels. With none of his Navy except perhaps 25 submarines outside of the Baltic, this action was a fairly empty gesture except as it affected Scandinavian shipping. First to feel it was Sweden's paper-pulp industry, whose big customers are British newspapers (see p.19...
World War I proved it. In 1914 many nations refused to stake their political fate in the quarrel between the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance. But one & all-Switzerland, the Scandinavian countries, Holland, Spain and notably the U. S.-found their economic destiny involved. For World War I profoundly altered every important economy in two hemispheres...
...Nylandska Jaktklubben (Royal Finnish Yacht Club) put up a golden nautilus shell, no larger than a lady's hand, to stimulate international competition at six-meter yacht racing, an old Scandinavian specialty. No longer than it took them to say smorgasbord, rich U. S. yachtsmen began to build six-meter boats (almost one-fourth the length of America's Cup yachts), found them fun to maneuver and comparatively inexpensive to maintain (about $3,000 a year in addition to some $8,000 initial outlay). Within four years there were enough good six-meter sailors...
...last week the little nautilus shell, more formally known as the Scandinavian Gold Cup, had become recognized as the world's No. 1 yachting trophy for small boats. Norway had won it seven times, Sweden six times, the U. S. four times. Because a U. S. boat had won the series the past three years (and consequently defended the cup in its home waters), U. S. yachtsmen last winter sportingly offered to hold this year's defense in Finnish waters to spare Europeans the expense of sending their boats across the Atlantic for the third year...