Word: copenhagen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Copenhagen and Stockholm reports said that Finnish planes had bombed a 12-mile stretch of the rail line near Murmansk, ripping up tracks and thoroughly disrupting Russian communications...
...That when his observations were finally submitted to the University of Copenhagen, they were shrugged off as worthless...
Meantime Cook had arrived in Copenhagen, where he received a tremendous welcome, including a gold medal from the Royal Danish Geographical Society. A handful of exploring notables-Roald Amundsen, Knud Rasmussen, Otto Sverdrup, Major-General Adolphus Washington Greely-favored Cook's claim over Peary's. But in the U. S. the National Geographic Society assembled a quorum of experts who gave the decision to Peary, and a bigger gold medal (four inches across). The controversy has not yet died...
...first arrivals was last week reported by the Berlin correspondent of the Copenhagen Politiken. The unhappy Jews were virtual slaves. The area around the city was entirely hedged in by barbed wire and bayonets. Gradually the Jews were herded from the station, given quarters of sorts, put immediately to work (twelve hours a day) on roads, fields, bogs, buildings...
...COPENHAGEN, Denmark--The captured American freighter City of Flint, in command of a Nezi prize crew, tonight was reported racing at full speed through Great Britain's naval blockade off the southern coast of Norway in an attempt to reach a German port...