Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Telephone and wire services to neutral countries were cut off. Airplane flights to neutral Sweden and Switzerland were interrupted. For hours the fate of Hitler and of Germany, which was in some degree the fate of every man, woman & child in the world, was shrouded behind an invisible, hermetic barrier...
Prince Gustaf Adolf, eldest son of Sweden's Crown Prince, gave his three young daughters, Princesses Desiree, 6, Birgitta, 7, and Margaretha, 9, the biggest treat of all: the circus...
...cloverleaf intersections which garland Randall's Island and the related flora which cover with concrete the once-lovely slopes of Riverside Park were first propagated in the soil of Prussia. Our housing projects proclaim . . . the precedents of Holland and of Sweden; nor is the tradition of England forgotten in the latest improvements of New York's parks. . . . "All practice originates in theory. Everything that is made must be first imagined. . . . The problems which confront each great city in Europe and in America are not so unique in character as to demand separate philosophies or special techniques of analysis...
Edgar Bergen, the power behind Puppet Charlie McCarthy, was decorated by order of Sweden's King Gustav V, with the Order of Vasa, 1st Class, for furthering American-Scandinavian relations. He promptly ordered a miniature medal for his meal-ticket...
...street-hawker, odd-job boy in a tin-plate factory, at a lumberyard, as a dispatcher, bartender, conjuror. He also painted scenery for Cavalcade, Victoria Regina, The Miracle and "practically all the best-known English and American shows between 1930 and 1939." Now he is lecturing in Upsala, Sweden...