Word: ivar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most celebrated operators were Samuel Insull and Ivar Krueger, a.k.a. the Swedish "Match King," both of whose faces appeared on the cover of this very magazine. Insull erected a Rube Goldberg-like structure of 65 companies that operated utilities in 32 states, and by 1932 it had completely collapsed in a $750 million loss for investors. Krueger's ventures came to a similar end, and the Match King snuffed himself...
...Ivar Tombach, an AeroVironment vice president, marvels at MacCready's "intense curiosity and incredible capacity to take little fragments of information and synthesize something totally unexpected out of them. A news clipping, a little thing on the evening news, something that he sees while going down the street." Often, while driving with Tombach, MacCready will suddenly look out the window and exclaim, "Look at the bird. See what he's doing...