Word: kroner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wedding presents included a 17th Century brooch of diamonds and pearls once owned by the father of Frederick the Great, from King Gustaf; a modern diamond brooch from Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, father of the bride; a sapphire pendant from George V; and five kroner in cash ($1.25) from an unknown Swedish girl. Because blue is Sweden's royal color and Princess Ingrid is passionately addicted to larkspur, a plane piled high with larkspur flew over from London to decorate the wedding church, Stockholm's 13th Century Storkyrka. Leading a concert of Danish and Swedish songs before...
Divorced. "Prince" Alexis Mdivani, 31; by Barbara Hutton Mdivani, 22, Woolworth heiress ($20,000,000); in Reno. Next day she married Count Kurt von Haugwitz-Reventlow, 38, handsome second son of an old Danish family. Independently rich, the Count stands to inherit a trust fund of 3,500,000 kroner ($1,575,000), six castles and estates in Denmark and a vast estate in Upper Silesia, all good dairy producers...
...Taking 100 as the measure of Swedish production in 1929, it is up from 79 during 1932 to 101 today. Typical of pleasant surprises, to which Swedes are now growing accustomed, is the latest report of the State Railways. They were expected to earn 12,000,000 kroner during the fiscal year which began last July, actually cleaned up 15,000,000 kronor in the first four months...
Subject to parliamentary approvalr Sweden, political arch-enemy of Communism, last week became the first power in all the world to negotiate a direct government loan to Soviet Russia. The loan agreement, announced last week in Moscow, is for 100,000,000 kroner ($26,300,000), big for Sweden, for seven years at 51%. It would shatter once and for all the twelve-year financial blockade by governments against the U. S. S. R. The money must be spent in Sweden, would buy high grade steel for tools, electrical machinery, ball bearings, iron...
Administrators of the estate of the late Ivar Kreuger announced that, to satisfy creditors, $100,000 worth of his silverware, books, paintings, including a Bacchanalian by Peter Paul Rubens valued at $20,000, will be sold at auction in Jersey City. In Stockholm Torsten Kreuger was fined 1,500.000 kroner (about $390,000) and sentenced to one year's hard labor for his part in his brother's crockery. Administrators of the estate of Chicago's late Edith Rockefeller McCormick announced that the furnishings of her Romanesque Lake Shore Drive town house will be auctioned next month...