Word: stockholmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stockholm, doctors were on strike, -118 of them, whose earnings in Government hospitals amounted to less than those of bus conductors. The strikers were promptly fired, since it is against the law in Sweden for Government employes to strike. But in the face of a shortage of medicos, they promptly returned to work on a temporary basis, threatening another walkout (as private citizens) if salaries were not jacked...
Died. Per Albin Hansson, 60, onetime gooseherd who rose to the leadership of Sweden's Social Democratic Party, was for 14 years Prime Minister (since 1932), pursued a neutrality policy that kept Sweden out of World War II; of a heart attack; in Stockholm...
...Arrived, in Stockholm, from Germany: U.S. Attorney General Thomas Campbell Clark with wife & son, on a "cartel-smashing trip." Said Clark: "General McNarney suggested my having a look at the Swedish beauties and here I am." Said the pilots of his plane: "A regular guy. He put us on his expense account...
...Arrived in Stockholm, "purely on business," General James Doolittle, now vice president of Shell Oil Co., and General David Sarnoff, president of RCA. Said Doolittle to rocket-rattled Swedes: "I would like to see a rocket very much." Said Sarnoff: "Show me a rocket and I will tell you from where it comes and how big it is. If the Swedish Government wants to avail itself of my services, I will be glad to oblige...
...Observers ventured three guesses: 1) the Russians were testing rocket equipment left by the Germans at Peenemünde, the now Russian-occupied V-bomb launching site (110 miles from Sweden); 2) they were trying to impress the world; 3) they were underlining, perhaps coincidentally, their suggestion that Stockholm give Moscow a one billion kronor ($278,500,000) credit, more than Sweden can afford without disrupting her economy...