Word: kroner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went to Berlin to learn big business. Later, like Ivar Kreuger, he worked and traveled all over the world. Before the War he picked out vacuum cleaners as a likely product to distribute. But the War stopped his plans for an international selling organization. With capital of 120,000 kroner (about $32,000) A. B. Elektrolux was launched in 1919. Thereafter the rise of Axel Wenner-Gren was swift-even for a Swede. Vacuum cleaners were supplemented with household appliances and later with absorption-type refrigerators.* Today Elektrolux products are sold in nearly every country in the world, while...
...items in the Price, Waterhouse report give the measure of Ivar Kreuger as a crook and a swindler: "Withdrawn by Ivar Kreuger on current accounts," and "Securities and other assets appropriated" -432,046,000 Swedish kroner net, at par about...
When Matchman Kreuger put a bullet through his heart last March, Sweden knew that he had been a contributor to Premier Ekman's People's party. Sweden did not know that a month earlier Ivar Kreuger had sent the Premier a personal check for 50,000 kroner from Manhattan. Ten days after that check was dated Premier Ekman had called a night session of the Riksdag, had forced through a 16,680,000-kronor appropriation for Swedish Match Co. and Kreuger & Toll. Recently Premier Ekman has been questioned again & again about entries after his name in the Kreuger...
...Penitent, Mrs. Jensen not only confessed her crime but begged the local jury to convict her. They, knowing Mr. Jensen, insisted on acquitting the self-confessed murderess, who burst into loud sobs. To help soothe her, King Haakon started a "sympathy fund" for Mrs. Jensen by contributing 500 kroner ($133) from his royal purse. The extenuating circumstances: Mr. Jensen told his wife with gruesome gusto that he had killed her two children in the woods, whereupon Mrs. Jensen split his head. But Practical-Joker Jensen had not killed the children, who are alive, well...
...Kroner. Prize presentations and the prizemen's acceptance speeches were at separate ceremonies. Each Nobel check for 172,946 kronor ($46,350) was encased in a sleek portfolio. Redder and redder flushed red-haired Author Lewis as the three other prizemen received their portfolios. When his turn came to step up to King Gustaf and receive $46,350 from the Royal hand Mr. Lewis advanced jerkily, bowed abruptly, deeply...