Word: fredrik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Automatic Foreman. Machines Bull was founded in 1931 by Vieillard, then an adding-machine-company engineer. He bought the patent rights to a type of punch-card machine, which had been willed to Oslo's Cancer Institute by Norwegian Inventor Fredrik Bull. With only $140,000 in capital, Vieillard soon needed more financing, sold a 70% interest in the company to the wealthy Callies family (paper mills), closely related to the Michelin and Citroen family. With new capital, the company plunged into research, soon turned out a tabulator capable of writing 150 lines a minute when other tabulators were...
...land. Before the members was an Israeli demand that Jordan be blamed for provoking the latest outbreak of killing in Palestine. The Jordanian machine-gun fire that killed four and wounded 17 Israeli archaeologists was organized and deliberate, the Israelis insisted. Having thoroughly reviewed the evidence. Chairman Christian Fredrik Moe of Norway differed and indicated that he would uphold Jordan's version-the shots were fired by one soldier who went berserk. At Moe's words, the Israeli delegation stamped out in a cold rage...
During World War II, a captured Japanese officer thoughtfully examined a football that the Y.M.C.A. had just given his P.W. camp as a gift from his enemies. Later, he approached the Rev. Fredrik Franklin, a Swedish Y.M.C.A. missionary in the Far East. "Mr. Franklin," he said, holding up the football, "is this Christianity?" Said Franklin: "Yes, sir, I believe...