Word: rasmussen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atlantic Ocean, off the barren shores of Greenland. She had a double steel bottom, an armored bow and stern, and was divided into seven watertight compartments; she carried the most modern instrumentation, from radar to gyro, from Decca Navigator to radio-equipped life rafts. Her veteran captain, P. L. Rasmussen, 58, declared: "This ship means a revolution in Arctic navigation." Boasted a government official: "Now we can sail to Greenland all year round...
Long & Short. More pessimistic were six economists who testified before the Congressional Joint Economic Committee last week that the recession may not be as short-lived as many people hope. Said Professor Jewell J. Rasmussen of the University of Utah, summing up the group's sentiment: "The possibility of a recession of the more serious type appears to be much greater now than in 1949 or 1953-54," because pent-up demand has been filled. But there was no such agreement among businessmen themselves. The steel industry, in fact, is cautiously optimistic, feels that it has reached the bottom...
ROBERT T. RASMUSSEN...
...descendant of a Danish-Jewish seafaring family, quit medical school for a job at sea, sailed as a stoker, got his first glimpse of Greenland at 20. He returned thereafter with various expeditions, soon learned to talk, live, love like an Eskimo. In 1912 Freuchen and his friend Knud Rasmussen crossed the north Greenland icecap. Childlike in his daring, steel-girded in his endurance, he once (1923) hammered off the frozen toes of his left foot, hopped actively on a peg leg after a subsequent amputation. With his face also frozen, Freuchen grew a full red beard, only shaved briefly...
...Lieut. Colonel Erik Helge Thalin, a Swede, and Major Miller Envit, a Dane, jeeped forward to check on the shooting. A Jordan villager, enraged over the recent death of a near relative, opened fire with a Sten gun and seriously wounded Colonel Thalin. Three days later Svend Rasmussen, a Danish radio technician, was killed by an anti-vehicle mine laid on a frontier path used only by U.N. observers...