Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drew up plans for a rooftop airport covering 144 square blocks in Manhattan, turned them over to the unimpressed city, which in turn relayed them to very-much-impressed Sweden and Russia. Two months ago he announced plans to upheave the busy community of Flushing, L. I., and set up a $50 million shopping center there (TIME...
Gustav V of Sweden, royalty's liveliest octogenarian and survivor of countless tennis matches, motoring home from a hunting trip, drove smack into a water-filled ditch, climbed out scatheless...
...Poised for a visit to Great Britain, after brushing up his backhand in Sweden...
...Sweden's two-man Davis Cup team-lean Lennart Bergelin and stocky little Torsten Johansson-finally reached the end of the line. Mostly hothouse trained on flossy indoor courts, they had managed with luck and Nordic determination to cop the European crown. Last week in the interzone final at Forest Hills, the U.S. squad blew the Swedes off the court, 5-0. U.S. Singles Champion Jack Kramer and ex-Champion Frank Parker breezed through their singles matches with the loss of just one set; National Doubles Champions Bill Talbert and Gardnar Mulloy just squeezed out an 8-6 fifth...
...legend as history) of Leif Ericson's trip from Greenland to "Vinland'' about 1000 A.D., he decides that Vinland must have been somewhere in the vicinity of Narragansett Bay. Three centuries later, he notes, a certain Paul Knutson was ordered by the King of Norway and Sweden to lead an expedition in search of Greenland colonists who were reported to have forsaken Christianity and moved away. Where would they go? Vinland, naturally. So off Knutson and his men sailed for Narragansett Bay; they arrived there...