Word: shetland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voyage of inspection Prime Minister Stauning also visited the Faroe Islands which are legally a part of Denmark proper and lie midway between the Shetland Islands and Iceland. These tiny isles with an area of only 540 sq. mi. have a population of 22,835-whereas big Greenland with an area 84 times as great (46,740 sq. mi.) has a population of only 14,355. "In my opinion," said Prime Minister Stauning, "there is room in the Faroe Islands for private initiative and the investment of capital to establish repair stations equipped with large petroleum and benzine tanks...
...Knight that she was "P'incess Lilybet" no longer but "big Sister Betty." Shouting with excitement Big Sister Betty demanded to see the new baby instanter "cause grandaddy's the King." She announced later that she preferred it to all her other pets; her chow dog, her canary, her Shetland pony Jessie, present from Grandaddy George...