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...were still getting weather predictions from the almanac, France's Léon Teisserenc de Bort was finding out about the stratosphere, charting the upper air (with Germany's Richard Assmann) and collecting weather data from 30 stations all over the world. In 1919, Norway's Vilhelm Bjerknes and his son Jakob (now head of the Department of Meteorology at U.C.L.A.) hoisted forecasting into a third dimension and a new perspective with their analyses of air masses. U.S. airlines and other private concerns were quick to adopt the Norwegian techniques, but the Weather Bureau didn...
...socialization were Premier Vilhelm Buhl's Social Democratic Party, strongest in the country, and the revivified Communist Party (the two did not campaign together). Against were Liberals and Conservatives. The voters' verdict was a surprise. Social Democrats lost 18 of their 66 seats, a pill that was not sweetened by the Communist advance from three to 18. Liberals boosted their 28 seats to 38, Conservatives held 26 of their 31. Smaller right and left parties stood their ground...
Down beflagged streets jammed with half a million cheering Danes drove the sternly smiling monarch and the royal family. Inside ancient Christiansborg Palace, in a ceremony devoid of pomp but charged with emotion, the King ceremoniously opened the new Parliament convened by Premier Vilhelm Buhl. More than once his voice almost broke...
When the Nazis rode roughshod over Denmark, they carefully bypassed the two Bishops, but they banned religious services in parts of Denmark, arrested Vilhelm Fibiger, former Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs, three Lutheran Pastors...
Last week Swedish Novelist Vilhelm Moberg published a novel that was written with great earnestness, a restrained love of the Swedish countryside, an earthy knowledge of peasant types. In sheer acreage (687 pages) The Earth Is Ours outbulked Knut Hamsun's Growth of the Soil (406 pages). But Growth of the Soil told an ageless legend of a land-loving peasant's conquest of and by the soil. The Earth Is Ours tells the story of a book-loving peasant's efforts to reshape his native countryside along the lines of the more abundant life...