Word: skagerrak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sailing koster was hardly bigger than a lifeboat; she seemed even smaller when she left the Swedish coast and beat out into the foul weather and seam-starting seas of the Skagerrak. The 16 Estonian refugees-seven men, five women, four little children-who had wedged themselves into the Erma's tiny cabin had no visas, no charts of the Atlantic, no food but potatoes, cereal, bread and canned fish. But they did not complain. After years of war and wandering, they were going to America...
...last week there were more than minefields in the Skagerrak to delay the shipment of Swedish pulp to U.S. paper mills. Mostly there was a matter of price. The Swedes, who know a seller's market when they see one, had set their price too high to get under the OPA ceiling...
William Bliss Harris, who manages the TIME editions printed in Hawaii, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Australia, Persia and India, has been in Sweden ever since October arranging for this first European edition of TIME (he was scheduled to leave Scotland on the Swedish plane the Germans shot down in the Skagerrak, is alive today only because he was switched at the last minute to a British bomber...
Winging its way across the dark Skagerrak, the big Swedish airliner Gripen was nearing home shores on its run from Aberdeen to Stockholm...
Trawling in close order through the choppy Skagerrak off the northwest tip of Denmark early one morning last week, five Swedish fishing vessels sighted three dark shapes approaching. The Swedes knew they were in international waters, knew their hulls were a bright blue and gold, knew their flags were flying. They saw that the newcomers were German minesweepers...