Word: scandinavian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Muddle in Newsprint. Because of inept bulk-buying in international markets Britain's newsprint stocks have fallen beneath the wartime low. The government did not allocate dollars for Canadian newsprint until Canada, after being rebuffed by Britain in favor of Scandinavian countries, had sold its stocks elsewhere. Last week British newspapers were ordered to cut newsprint consumption 5%, reducing six-page papers to four pages once a week. A later order cut magazine supplies...
...Scandinavian, Benelux and other Continental delegates gradually shifted to the British point of view, declined to support a federated "little Europe" (i.e., without Britain). In voting last week for specialized agencies, the Consultative Assembly recommended that work begin at once to seek intergovernmental agreement in transport and agriculture...
Instead, the Pontecorvos bought tickets via Scandinavian Airlines to Stockholm. From Stockholm, without calling Mrs. Pontecorvo's mother, who lives in a suburb of the Swedish capital, they quickly flew on to Helsinki. During the trip, one of their little sons prattled to a fellow passenger, "We're going to Russia." When the youngster saw land below after crossing the Baltic, he asked, "Is that Russia...
...Britain is strangling in dividual liberty in the historic citadel of liberty. Many a farmer and small business man told Dos Passos what an intellectual phrased most sharply: "England's dead, quite dead, quite. We're the lost island of the Atlantic, sunk in everlasting ennui, the Scandinavian ennui...
Following this appearance Kauffman will be honored at a dinner at the Faculty Club from which he will proceed to Fogg for the talk sponsored by the Scandinavian Forum of Greater Boston...