Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usefulness in deep snow previously unnavigable. One such machine has done the work which formerly required three teams. In Oregon a stage line uses a snow motor in its two daily round trips over the Mackenzie Pass between Eugene and Bend. Orders are already in hand from Canada, Norway, Sweden, Alaska. The Hudson Bay Co. has ordered a supply to maintain communications with its most northern fur-trading stations. The Royal Northwest Mounted Police have also gone into the market for snow motors, and may cease to be horsemen and become chauffeurs, to the deep regret of cinema people...
...Charles XII, boy king of Sweden, beats Peter on the battlefield. In the retreat, a Russian general takes a girl, Katharina, whom later he gives to Peter. Peter likes her. He sends the Tsarina to a nunnery...
...Ambassadors Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary of Spain, Chile, Belgium, Argentina, Peru, France, Mexico, Italy, Germany, Japan, Brazil and Cuba; the Ministers Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Portugal, Norway, Denmark, Uruguay, Switzerland, China, Sweden, Hungary, Finland, Guatemala, Colombia, Panama, Jugoslavia, Costa Rica, Holland, Bolivia, Esthonia, Lithuania, Irish Free State, Greece, Haiti, Honduras, Austria, Latvia, Egypt, Poland and Bulgaria; the Charges d'Affaires of Salvador, Persia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Paraguay, Nicaragua, San Domingo and Roumania; the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; the Secretary of State of the U. S.; the President of the U. S.; and the respective ladies...
...ears of a stolid Scandinavian peasant came cries of anguish. Rushing through the woods toward the sound, he discovered a powerful bearded forester in the act of drubbing in the back with clenched fists, the popular Prince Carl of Sweden. Bewildered, the peasant recognized the two tall figures who stood laughing beside the screaming Prince as their Majesties Gustav V, King of Sweden, and Christian X, King of Denmark...
...soot begrimed the upper deckhouse; the engineer had on a stiff collar; the attendants who stooped among the glinting wheels and thrusting, noiseless pistons of the engine room, tried not to get their cuffs dirty and succeeded. For this was the Gripsholm, arriving on her maiden trip from Gothenburg, Sweden, the first direct oil-burning* liner to cross the Atlantic. The motive power is generated by two double-acting six-cylinder Diesel engines of a new design, the largest ever built, which use crude oil for internal combustion approximately as an "automobile uses gasoline. Each engine drives a propeller...