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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hungarian issue from Swedish Match...
...Institute, became an engineer. Kreuger & Toll started business as an engineering firm. But, when Father Kreuger became involved in serious difficulties, Son Ivar left engineering and turned to matchmaking. His initial success was the 1913 merger. When his combine wedded the Jonkoping group in 1917, Matchmaker Kreuger made the match. He is managing director of Swedish Match, president of International Match, chairman of the board of Swedish-American Investment Corp., and, of course, head of all-controlling Kreuger & Toll...
Matchmaker Kreuger speaks fluently Swedish, English, French, German. He has more than a smattering of Russian and Finnish. But he would have to speak at least 50 languages and dialects if he were to conduct personally all the affairs of the International Match Co. Within the last three years, Matchmaker Kreuger has concluded shrewd deals in Poland, Peru, Greece, Norway, Germany, France, Jugoslavia, Japan, Ecuador, Esthonia. International Match Co. controls 75% of U. S. production, through the wholly owned Vulcan Match Co., and through the "biggest" Diamond Match Co. This company has a contract with the Swedish monopoly...
Moon. At the time the International Match Co. sprang into being (1923), the Swedish Match Co. announced a curious statistic. It assured the dubious that match boxes, produced in eight months at its factories, placed end to end, would reach from the earth to the moon...
Matchmaking. Chemist John Walker of Stockton-on-Tees, England, invented the first match, exactly 101 years ago. It was called a "friction light." It consisted of a wooden splint, one quarter inch in width, dipped in a mixture of sulphide of antimony, chlorate of potash, gum and starch.* The next epoch in matchmaking was brought about by the use of phosphorus. Over-inflammable, phosphorus matches caused many a fire. Factory hands, employed in their production succumbed to an incurable disease called phossy-jaw. The dangers of these matches at length were recognized in the laws of most nations, including matchmaking...