Word: stockholmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bucharest and Stockholm, it was reported that the great $110,000,000, 140-foot Dnieper Dam near Zaporozhe had been blown up by the retreating Russians. The step would be logical, since the highway atop the dam was one of the best bridges across the river, and since the flood below would reinforce the river as a scarp against the Nazis...
...TIME'S account of conditions in Sweden was based on letters from intelligent and informed Swedes in Stockholm. Secretary Dahlman, with official sources of information, is doubtless substantially correct on all points. But with Sweden in a tough spot, completely encircled by the Axis, it may be necessary that some things read one way in the official lexicon and another way to people on the scene...
...Stockholm reported acute Norwegian food shortages. Producers, the dispatch said, refused to produce, preferring to starve rather than feed the invaders...
There are no big slums in Stockholm. And there are no flies on Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art-a reputation it once again proved last week by putting on in Manhattan one of its traveling shows, Stockholm Builds: 101 careful camera studies by Architect G. E. Kidder Smith. Stockholm's houses (over 30% of them built in the last ten years) and public buildings are the world's models-famed for intelligent modern architecture, well-planned integration, neat, modest lines. The Swedes have no great architects, no great planners: their success is the community...
...Examples: the Kvarnholmen cooperative industrial community, on an island outside Stock holm, with flour mills, shops, schools, managers' and workers' houses; school buildings like Paul Hedquist's clean-lined structure at Bromma {see cut) ; shrewdly angled, balconied, sun-catching apartment houses in crowded sections of Stockholm; an adroitly designed swimming pool and social center in the Vanadislunden residential section of Stockholm...