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...Americans, the telephone business is synonymous with A. T. & T. But in a score of other nations, those who want to buy anything from an office intercom system to a complete telephone exchange are likely to think first of Sweden's L. M. Ericsson Telephone Co. Last week Ericsson engineers were installing new telephone networks from Egypt to Iceland, and in Stockholm, company officials jubilantly announced a $20 million sale of automatic switching equipment to neighboring Denmark...
...Ericsson has a long way to go before it catches up with A. T. & T.; its total assets ($316 million) are smaller than A. T. & T.'s profits ($358 million) for the second quarter of this year. But with the aid of a globe-girdling complex of 72 subsidiaries and associated companies, Ericsson last year increased its sales by 13% and its profits...
...Leif Ericsson's colony in Greenland...
...Utmost Island, by Henry Myers, gives the discovery of America still another run through the typewriter. Myers sticks to the old story that it was Leif Ericsson, not Ogier and the princess, who deserves the credit. But Author Myers is dissatisfied with all accepted versions of Leif's adventures, and offers a revised one: Leif was not on his way to Christianize Greenland-he was simply an old-fashioned pagan, making sea tracks from Norway because he couldn't stand Christianity at home...
...Viking craft, built along the lines of Leif Ericsson's 10th Century vessel, sailed from Norway to New York en route to Chicago's World's Fair. Her welcome to the U.S. was so lavishly staged by the Norwegian Society of Brooklyn that six of her crew, including Captain Magnus Anderssen, ended up in Brooklyn's Butler Street police court charged with being drunk and disorderly. The presiding magistrate, James M. Tighe, who happened to be president of Brooklyn's own Celtic Varuna Boat Club, was not impressed with the difficulties of the Norsemen...