Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Steinbeck, on a junket to Scandinavia, got a hero's welcome. Reporters and cameramen woke him at 4 a.m. the morning after his arrival in Sweden; reporters stuck with him on the seven-hour-ride by train and ferry to Copenhagen; more boarded the train at every stop. Cried one Copenhagen paper: "John...
Eighty-two foreign students, representing 32 countries and four continents all the way from Afghanistan to Sweden, are registered in the College for the present term, the Foreign Students' Office announced yesterday. Figures for the remainder of the University have not been compiled...
...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...
...Sweden was concerned this summer with...