Word: matching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...match in which Kozeluh beat Richards last week was not characterized by that tense, almost insane hunger for points with which amateurs excite galleries and rattle their linesmen. Both men seemed to be enjoying their game; Kozeluh would explain "Bed lock!" to the gallery when Richards dropped a volley. His game was distinctively that of a professional; he carried his racquet awkwardly at his side, played from the base-line with, a long follow-through and a short backswing, ran for nothing which he could not get and got practically everything he tried for. His returns were never purely defensive...
...wise investors, buying Kreuger & Toll debentures, knew they were lending money to the Swedish match monopoly, controlling the match trade in over 40 countries...
Matchmakers. A sad-faced Swede named Johan Edvard Lundstrom had erected a match factory at his native Jonkoping ir. 1845. Starting with a small shop, he and Brother Carl Frans swiftly widened their market. In 1850 Brother Carl Frans visited England, talked business with Matchmakers Bryant & May. Thus began Sweden's export of matches...
...years went by before the remaining import companies were led by Ivar Kreuger into the Aktiebolaget Forenade Svenska Tandstickfabriker. These two combines functioned independently until 1917, when they agreed on a cost-saving and letter-saving merger. They became, briefly, the Svenska Tandsticksaktiebolaget. Translated literally, they became the Swedish Match...
Intricately woven about the Swedish Match Co. is the organization by which it maintains and strengthens its monopoly. In 1923 it fostered the subsidiary International Match Co. to handle foreign manufacture and marketing. Swedish Match is itself controlled by Kreuger & Toll, an organizing and managing company which also owns all the common stock of the Swedish-American Investment...