Word: matching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...match between Team B and the Walk-Over Club will be played at the University Club Squash Courts in Boston. Team B consists of N. F. Glidden '31, Arthur Ingraham '30, S. B. Myers '29, E. M. Shelton '30, and R. R. Stebbins '31. Glidden will play number...
Shrewd Ivar Kreuger has known how to dicker with sensitive governments, greedy governments, when the Swedish Match Trust wanted another monopoly (TIME, Oct. 1). A fat check here, a guarantee there, and competition has pleasantly evaporated. Thus it was that, last week, the match king of Sweden could look with satisfaction at every major match-consuming country of the world, except...
...exception, of course, was the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. From Moscow had issued orders for war with the Swedish Match Trust in the world's markets. And following the orders came inspired reports that the U.S.S.R. had enlisted both the Japanese trust and the Chinese syndicates as allies. And following the propaganda came Russian matches, in boxes, in crates, in carloads, flooding the markets of Europe...
With this blast, Matchmaker Kreuger thought he had extinguished the flickering Soviet-Swedish match...
...Swedish Match Co., Ltd., a $270,000,000 concern, which not only sells matches but also makes huge loans to needy governments...