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Word: borg (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ldig borg." To conquer not only England but most of what is now the Baltic States was the bloody feat of Denmark in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries under her Hero-Kings, Cnut the Great and the Valdemars. In the 13th Century valorous Norwegians led by Haakon the Old seized Greenland, Iceland, the Orkneys, the Shetlands and the Hebrides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORDIC STATES: Mighty Fortress | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...onto a Palace balcony by the Three Kings and amid deafening cheers the four men linked arms, stood solemnly while the crowd sang the national anthems of their countries and ended with that grand old Lutheran fighting hymn "Vår Gud är oss en väldig borg" (A Mighty Fortress Is Our God). In the enthusiastic crush 17 people fainted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORDIC STATES: Mighty Fortress | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Only one thing was wrong with this picture: George Mason did not want to leave Kelvinator. Why not, said Mr. Nash, bring Kelvinator with him? General Motors has Frigidaire, Borg-Warner has Norge, Chrysler, if not in refrigerators, is in air conditioning. So last week-after a flat denial from old Mr. Nash that a merger was in the making-the deal was announced. Subject to stockholder approval on both sides, each share of Kelvinator will be exchanged for 1⅜ shares of Nash. Then Nash will change its name to Nash-Kelvinator Corp. with Mr. Nash as chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Kelvinator to Nash | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...Reduction 1,523 1,019 Allis-Chalmers 1,170 482 American Bank Note 722 104 Aviation Corp. (Del.) 863 D 334 D Byers (cast iron pipe) 331 49 Borg Warner 1,097 325 Caterpillar Tractor 3,365 1,031 Chrysler Corp. 180 979 D Corn Products Refining 3,152 2,389 Curtis Publishing 6,533 4,654 General Electric 15,042 11,488 General Foods 5,990 5,572 General Motors 44,968 28,999 Gillette 2,164 1,421 Hudson Motor Car 2,316 226 Hupp Motor Car 66 680 D McGraw-Hill Publishing 534 372 Montgomery Ward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sorry Quarter | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

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