Word: thor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week were the blue and yellow of Sweden, the blue, red and white of Iceland, and the black, red and green stripes of Afghanistan, all newly admitted to the U.N. A. Hosayn Aziz of Afghanistan was first to pen his signature to the instrument of adherence, followed by Thor Thors, Iceland's Minister to the U.S., and Oesten Unden, Foreign Minister of Sweden. Elected to the Security Council as temporary members were Belgium, Colombia and Syria; they will replace The Netherlands, Mexico and Egypt...
When Swedish Scientist Berzelius in 1828 named his newly discovered element thorium-after Thor, god of thunder-the choice was perhaps more portentous than Berzelius guessed. Last week in Ottawa, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King told the House of Commons that Canada's huge atomic-energy project at Chalk River, Ont. is exploring the use of thorium as a source of atomic energy. This was the first public hint of large-scale atomic experiments with elements other than uranium...
...fight to keep reconversion prices close to 1942 levels, OPA Boss Chester Bowles last week caught a tartar and found a potent ally. The tartar was sandy-haired, aggressive Edward N. Hurley Jr., board chairman of Chicago's Electric Household Utilities Corp. (Thor washers and ironers...
Tragi-comic fantasy by the au thor of Liliom and The Guardsman. A modern Hungarian Munchausen makes himself the hero of every wild, romantic tale he has ever heard, but his own life is more bizarre than his fancies...
...Iceland were independent of Denmark, it would come within the sphere of either British or U.S. influence. In Washington, Iceland's Minister Thor Thors made it plain that his country looks to the U.S. as its first big neighbor. But that alone would not decide the issue; at the peace table little Iceland's status would be a problem that the U.S. and Great Britain would have to settle...