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...pioneer of commercial aviation, founder and longtime (1924-49) president of Swedish Air Lines, a spirited optimist who in 1937 talked the Russians into granting his line the first regularly scheduled route from the West to Moscow, saw his company become the cornerstone in 1946 of the $137 million Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Stockholm...
...united Europe linked in partnership with North America, both acting together to raise the living standards and secure the independence of the nations of Africa, Asia and Latin America. To make this design enduring, the U.S. insisted that Britain become a member of the Common Market, followed by the Scandinavian and other NATO countries. The defense of this grand design would be twofold: conventional arms and armies supplied by Europe, and the nuclear umbrella held aloft...
...arms of the Van Cortlandt family, was used for dispensing a mixture of wine or ale, eggs, gruel, sugar and spices to the sick and their visitors. Onckelbag's bowl with graceful curved handles is 12 in. wide and is ornamented with a floral design showing a strong Scandinavian influence; inside the base are the Twyford family arms. The porringer was made by Jurian Blanck Jr.. New York's first native-born silversmith. Also on display...
Macy's made its centerpiece a 50-year-old, horse-drawn delivery wagon. Riders competed not only for the Schaefer (beer) Working Hunter Stake, the Scandinavian Airlines International Jumping Stake, the Revlon Special Jumper's Trophy, but-final irony-the Imperial (Chrysler) Challenge Trophy for jumpers. And the $800 boxes around the arena did not have the same dazzle of high society and high fashion that opening night once...
Sense of Worth. Immigration no longer supplies the scores of hopeful girls who got their New World start in domestic service (those same servants may be mothers of Cabinet members and college professors today). But the servant shortage has turned many employers' eyes back to Europe. Scandinavian, German, English and Irish girls have not yet lost a sense of worth and dignity in domestic service, and they have heard of the high pay in America. Many of them are interested in picking up some English, and even more in picking up a husband- as did Anne-Marie Rasmussen...