Word: aktiebolaget
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From the timber harvests of North America and Scandinavia, the giants of the industry--led by International Paper of Stamford, Conn. (2002 total sales: $25 billion); Georgia-Pacific of Atlanta ($23.3 billion); Weyerhaeuser of Tacoma, Wash. ($18.5 billion); Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA of Stockholm ($10 billion); and Smurfit-Stone Container of Chicago ($8.2 billion)--churn out millions of tons of linerboard and corrugated. A box can be small enough to hold a wedding ring or large enough for jet skis (4 ft. by 4 ft. by 4 ft. is the maximum, however). The U.S. leads the world in box manufacturing...
...gases through flues. Dalén came up instead with a well-insulated, cast-iron stove that stored warmth efficiently and demanded only a small heat source. The radiant heat also proved successful in cooking food without drying it out, and he named the stove after his company, Svenska Aktiebolaget Gas Accumulator...
...class society, executive salaries are generally modest; the average president of a Swedish company with at least 500 employees makes about $30,000. The total income of Sweden's best-known executive, President Curt Nicolin of electric-equipment maker ASEA (for Allmänna Svenska Elektriska Aktiebolaget), is $120,000, and that of Volvo Boss Gunnar Engellau...
...Swedish company with the tongue-twisting name of Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget is known throughout the world chiefly for its sturdy, roly-poly automobiles, which bear the company abbreviation, Saab. Few outside of Scandinavia are aware that Saab is also one of the Continent's largest aircraft producers and a bulwark of Sweden's defense effort. The company has built about 90% of its country's 700-plane jet air force, the world's fifth largest-and soon it will increase even that impressive percentage. It has just been chosen by the Swedish government to build...
Named for the three-tongued bolt of lightning that sparked from Thor's hammer, the Viggen was designed by Saab (for Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget). Saab currently reaps half its $136 million annual sales from autos, trucks and tractors, but it is also the Continent's biggest privately owned aircraft manufacturer...