U S Sought To Buy Greenland In 1946
Copenhagen based historian Tage Kaarsted claims in a new book that James Byrnes offered to buy Greenland from Denmark during a 1946 United Nations meeting. No price was discussed and Denmark did not seriously consider the proposal. The book cites public records and secret files.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
United States
Greenland
Tage Kaarsted
Kaarsted
U.S
James ¥. Byrnes
Gustav Rasmussen
United Nations
Penn Run Lt. Dwight Lydic assigned as forward observer abroad
Army 2nd Lt Dwight A. Lydic son of Mr and Mrs Arthur M Lydic Penn Run RD 1 was assigned as a forward observer with the 3rd Infantry Division in Bad Kissingen Germany He earned a BS degree in 1976 from IUP
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Penn Run
Dwight A. Lydic
Arthur M. Lydic
RD 1
3Rd Infantry
Bad Kissingen
Germany
IUP
Accent coach Ruth Roberts helped stars like Bergman
Bellevue based Ruth Roberts, an accent coach for MGM in Hollywood’s golden era, helped Ingrid Bergman and Loretta Young perfect English and Swedish accents. She fluent in Swedish, aided Bergman on multiple roles, and worked on Intermezzo in 1939. Roberts recently returned to America after weeks in England with Bergman during Waters On The Moon revival.
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Bellevue
Wash
Ruth Roberts
Ingrid Bergman
Sam
Mrs. Roberts
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Hollywood
Loretta Young
Miss Young
Tle
America
England
Miss Bergman
Chichester Festival
Bicentennial Wagon Train Cost Taxpayers $2.3 Million
Philadelphia report details how the Bicentennial Wagon Train became a costly misfire funded by state taxpayers. Thelma Gray of Aitkin-Kynett promoted phantom corporate support while actual cash donations were only $1 million from Gulf Oil and $15,000 from Holiday Inns, with $1.5 million in services. The state ended up $2.3 million in the hole as marketing firms misprojected revenues and officials delayed by federal approval.
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Philadelphia
Allentown Morning Call
Valley Forge
Thelma Gray
Aitkin-Kynett
Holiday Inns
Aitkin Kynett
Keting
Westport
Conn
Don Porter
Connecticut
Call
Commonwealth
New York City
George Barnard
Aitkin-Kynett Board
Barnard
State Bicentennial Commission
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U. S
Arctic
Communist Party
Aksel Larsen
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
Lydic
Duisburg
West Germany
Humphrey Bogart
Claude Raines
Troutmans
Sport
Portswear
The
Gray
Johnstown
HUD - Johnstown
New Cortley’s
G Codley
Cortley
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