Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ivar Kreuger, ill-famed Swedish match king, shot himself in a Paris apartment 14 years ago, but the evil that he did lived after him.* Not until this week were the effects of his slick cartel-making wiped out in the U.S. The end came in a consent decree in the Government antitrust suit against Kreuger's old Swedish Match Co. and six companies dominated by secretive U.S. Match King William Armstrong Fairburn. A Federal court in Manhattan ordered a stop to such cartel practices as: ¶ Dividing the world into noncompetitive markets. ¶ Restricting production. ¶ Fixing prices...
...divide in a tunnel or a deep open cut. When it reaches the Jordan rift, it will plunge 900 feet to a power plant, then will drop 300 feet to another. The briny river's flow will be limited to about 1,000 cubic feet per second, to match evaporation from the Dead Sea. But its drop will be so great that it will generate 560,000,000 kilowatt hours per year. (TVA total: 10 billion...
...role. Says Son John Lloyd Wright: "I can think of him . . . as Don Quixote, to whom every windmill was a woman in distress; as Apis, who was conceived by a bolt of lightning; as Ferdinand, who loved the aroma of flowers; as Reynard, whose affection at times was no match for his appetite...
John's literary skill is at times no match for his filial feeling. According to John's earliest memories (Oak Park, Ill. at the turn of the century): "Papa liked vaudeville! Vaudeville liked Papa!-Papa designed most of Mama's dresses. Most of Mama's dresses were brown!" The first curtain came down with a rush when Wright tired of the role of Papa and walked out on his wife and six children "overnight-he didn't even say goodbye...
Chest surgeons would like an anesthetic for electric-knife operations that will put and keep the patient under with no danger of blowing the patient up. Both ether and cyclopropane are inflammable, and the wound-cauterizing electric knife, a useful aid to modern surgery, can act like a flaming match when brought near lungs filled with inflammable...