Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swedish the word plan means both airplane and scheme. Last week there reached the U. S. from Sweden a strange story involving both...
...Sweden's Government debated long over the proffered gift, then decided to thank the General just the same but not accept his offer. Whereupon General Goring became so enraged that the only thing that averted a complete diplomatic break was a hasty trip to Berlin by no less a person than King Gustav V, who pinned on Herr Göring's bulging chest the highest Swedish military honor-the Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword...
...Most of Sweden's best hospitals are in big cities on the coast; many of Sweden's population fall sick far inland, beyond high mountains. To get these unfortunates out, Sweden had three ambulance airplanes-until one of them crashed on the Lapland mountains in October...
When he heard about the accident, Germany's Field Marshal Hermann Göring, who, long before he got too paunchy to slide into a cockpit, served as a commercial pilot in Sweden, offered to make Sweden a present of a new, fully-equipped air-ambulance worth 450,000 crowns ($108,000). The plane was to be named for Göring's dead first wife Karin, sister of the wife of a Swede named Dr. Nils Silfversköld (Silver Shield...
...more fellowships of $1000 each will be awarded for graduate study next summer in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark by the American-Scandinavian Foundation. Recipients of the fellowships must be born in the United States and should have knowledge of at least one foreign language...