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...First Viking raids. Norsemens' victories in 1016 bring Denmark's Canute to throne, unify England...
...million). It will produce more coal and steel than either of the present-day great powers, be the world's second biggest automaker (after the U.S.), absorb almost half of all world exports. If Britain's partners in the rival European Free Trade Association (Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal) become associated with the community, it will number some 264 million people...
...just a fluttering old bat"). Edward VII constantly demanded new surprises, exclaiming gruffly "We must have no duplicates!" In a single day, Fabergé's biographer H. C. Bainbridge remembers, the house of Fabergé played host to the King and Queen of Norway, the Kings of Denmark and Greece, and Alexandra, Edward's consort...
...small Vevey factory in which Henri Nestlé had been producing milk pap for babies, Nestlé has consistently been characterized by a rare combination of imaginative salesmanship and financial caution. With uninhibited confidence, Nestlé has made a success of peddling canned milk in dairy-rich Denmark and instant coffee in Brazil. Most of the company's earnings are poured back into expansion: its 70,000 shareholders, many of them Swiss farmers, get only a 1.2% annual dividend and equally meager information on Nestlé's fiscal condition. Explains one Nestlé executive: "Reticence hasn...
...says he was. "Amateur officials used me for their excuse. 'How can you be for open tennis?' they asked each other, 'when you know it will fall into the hands of Kramer?'" At first, Kramer tried to build up the pro game, signed new players: Denmark's Kurt Nielsen, Chile's Luis Ayala, the U.S.'s Barry MacKay and Butch Buchholz. "But it soon became clear," wrote Kramer, "that my pro tour could not thrive on its own without open championships." So he decided to get out completely-in hopes that the I.L.T.F...