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This broadcast was the freebooting work of Copenhagen's Ib Fogh, 45, a tableware manufacturer who sees kroner in more than silver. He used an idea tried in other European countries, where free enterprisers have long livened the state-controlled air (and reaped the income of commercials). Example: French broadcasters have set up a commercial station beyond the reach of French regulation in tiny Andorra. Free Enterpriser Fogh incorporated himself in Liechtenstein as "Internationale Merkur Radio Anstalt," bought an ancient, 100-ton freighter and fixed her up with Panamanian registry, a 36-kw. transmitter, a towering g8-ft. antenna...
...hungry citizens behind the Iron Curtain may well be impatient and undisciplined. More than 50,000 Czech citizens have managed to save the down payment of 20,000 kroner ($2,800) to get their name on the state waiting list for a new auto, but only 19,000 cars (out of a production of about 40,000) will be available for citizens this year. The rest will be shipped abroad to get precious foreign currency, or turned over to party members. Even at the official price tag of 27,000 kroner, a new car represents almost 100 weeks' wages...
...more of this type of American." Said Berlingske Tidende, Denmark's leading daily, after a Curtice press conference: "It was really felt that here was a magnate who had succeeded in performing the miracle to preserve his soul in company with an annual turnover of 70 thousand million kroner...
...could produce the documents he was supposed to have given away to the Russians, the government's case would collapse. Cops were dispatched to Sunde's home. Sure enough, as he said, in an envelope stuck to an old cabinet they found passports, police cards and 240 kroner. Sunde smiled triumphantly...
...police, playing a hunch, sent the kroner off to the national bank for a check of the serial numbers. Back came word that this series was put into circulation in March 1954. At that time, Sunde was already in jail. Now it was the prosecutor's turn to laugh. As he reconstructed the affair, the Soviet embassy, anxious to help Comrade Sunde, had taken the passports and police cards he had given the Russian agent, had stuffed them into an envelope with the money, planted the lot in Sunde's flat, and then sent him word of what...