Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frederik of Norway made a fullblown, official state visit to Stockholm, thus giving royalty a fine excuse to dress to the teeth. One result: a news picture of Sweden's Gustaf and Denmark's Queen Ingrid which almost played its own champagne waltz...
...took 20 reindeer to herald the coming of Perón's Five-Year Plan to Tierra del Fuego. The government had imported them to provide food, clothing and transportation to the 3,513 inhabitants of the wintry archipelago at the tip of South America. On arrival from Sweden, the antlered immigrants were welcomed by Minister of Marine Rear Admiral Fidel Anadon. Said Buenos Aires' semi-official daily El Laborista: "[They are] the advance guard of the Plan Quinquenal which will make Tierra del Fuego a magnificent exponent of social and economic progress...
...Portugal, Sweden, Canada (French and English), Egypt, Finland, Japan, Australia, Denmark, France, Belgium, Switzerland (French) and Norway...
...already has representatives in 47 countries and six partially owned subsidiaries in Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Egypt, Panama and the Philippines. To overcome the world dollar shortage, it has set up a complex system of bartering currencies and goods. The corporation provided the dollars to buy raw materials from Sweden for a British manufacturer, took payment in British goods. It also started a $3,000,000 cement plant in Jamaica with capital in English sterling, machinery and supplies from Canada...
...breathing spell from polio this year, but epidemics hit hard in Britain, Germany, Belgium, Sweden...