Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feel our story sympathitically treated, which we appreciate very much. But there were some errors, from which at least one might give the wrong impression of us. Namely: we did not wish to return to a Soviet-Estonia, as the Swedish Government recommanded us. This is why we left Sweden five months ago. But none of us left Estonia after the country "was taken over by Russia." Vice versa, all of us left our native land when it was occupied, entirely or dealwise, by Germans. Some of us escaped from Germans in 1943, more than one year before Russia occupied...
...Pony" edition (the first miniatured magazine to be sent by fast overseas delivery to our armed forces), to "Colt" sizes like the Paris edition, and others in the familiar U.S. TIME size. Some-like our prewar Air Express edition to Latin America and the edition we began in Sweden in 1943-carried their own advertising and served our English-reading subscribers around the earth. But most of them-like the editions printed in Honolulu, Australia, Calcutta-served military needs only...
...world learned to look to Latin American cities for some manufactured exports. On ancient, hand-me-down Manchester equipment, Brazil's textile mills make some $60,000,000 worth of textiles annually for South Africa, Ireland, Sweden, the Belgian Congo, Australia. Even though war-made markets may vanish, the fact is that today Brazil's manufactures are gaining on her agricultural products in export value. Brazil is one of the world's largest exporting nations...
...best, the legal grounds for the Big Four demands for German property in neutral countries are shaky. Sweden has already objected to informal demands, has cooperated to the extent of earmarking German interests, pending the presentation of satisfactory legal claims. Last week the State Department complained that Nixon's "misleading" charges had aggravated the difficulties...
Closest to the mythical four-minute-mile: lean-legged Gunder Hägg's 4:01.4 record (under fire while Sweden decided the controversial issue of Hagg's amateur status...