Word: kroner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like the others, she had managed somehow to scrape together 800 kroner to help pay for and provision the refugee barge. With Hugo Ennist. an inexperienced young captain hired at the last minute to guide them, they had set sail from Gäteborg at 2 o'clock one morning a fortnight ago. On the way out of the harbor they hit a rock and stove in the ship's plates. Many of the mattresses got soaked. The passengers slept huddled in corners. The air was hot and fetid in the packed cabin, and drinking water...
Nearly all of Sweden's 3,359 doctors take part. A law already passed, but not effective until 1951, will make health insurance compulsory. Norway has had health insurance since 1909, compulsory for all earning less than 9,000 kroner ($1,800) yearly and voluntary for those earning more...
...Worst Enemy. In Köge, Denmark, Police Chief Vagn Bro raced in front of a train at a crossing, raced right on to the police station, fined himself 50 kroner for reckless driving...
Telephones & Targets. Wenner-Gren's telephone deal was almost as involved as the financial matchwork conceived by his late countryman Ivar Kreuger. Since Sweden's tight currency controls will not let Wenner-Gren export more than 2,200 kroner ($600) a month, he had to make the deal through a swap...
...other Nobel awards have been announced yet this year, and the physics, chemistry, medicine and psychology, and literature funds have still to be allotted. At times the Swedish government has passed a category, or not paid out any kroner at all, as occurred in 1940 through...