Better Than Ever Before

This time operation "Give-one-Day" went better than ever before. Employers were phoning incessantly. The students went to work (because of heavy rainfall throughout the day it was a very unpleasant job for many), and in the evening a happy organising committee could add up 65,000 N.Kr. (£3,250) as a net result.

In the meantime, things had been happening at the University Square. The greatest Super Market ever seen in Oslo had been established. Shops and firms all over the town had been given notice some days before that any gifts were most welcome for the market. One thousand of them responded to the appeal to contribute to the students' special market. A military regiment lent 15 big lorries, and every one of them returned overloaded with goods of all sorts, food and furniture, socks and sweaters, big things and small, useful and useless. In the early morning hours on the 28th everything was arranged on large tables at the University Square. The student merchants were prepared. And then the consumers could come!