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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...illogical to state that if Japan has wantonly slaughtered one and one half million Chinese, three quarters of a million Chinese men, women and children were murdered by the Congress and President of these States...
...rose in price as the Government rationed it. Malnutrition and influenza contributed to raising the death rate in Sweden by a third in 1918-19. Norway did well with fish and lumber to export to the belligerents. Norwegian steamship lines cashed in, paying big dividends and purchasing about a million tons of new shipping from the U. S. as German mines and submarines sent 829 Norwegian merchant vessels to the bottom...
...Swedish match business was divided between a great number of small individual match factories and the large combine of Jönköping. Just before the War Ivar Kreuger had managed to combine the smaller companies into the United Swedish Match Factories, with a capital of four million kroner. This company, like its rival Jönköping, was faced with War-created difficulties in getting raw materials. But Kreuger made deals with belligerents, guaranteeing to supply them with matches in return for raw materials...
...December 1917, the new combine had built itself up to the point of amalgamating with Jönköping on very favorable terms. The new trust, called the Swedish Match Company Ltd., was capitalized at 45 million kroner, and Kreuger emerged as boss. Faced with renewed competition after the War, Kreuger took advantage of depreciated currencies to buy up match factories and real estate in Poland, Belgium and Germany. He emerged from the War as the match king of the world-to fail and go crooked in the 1929 depression...
...absorb 3,000 Catholic Mutual Aid Societies, which have furnished sickness and old-age insurance to peasants and workers. For 17 years Fascists let these peaceable, efficient, non-political societies alone. The State's new interest seemed centred in the organization's capital reserves of several hundred million lire...