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ROBERT T. RASMUSSEN...
...descendant of a Danish-Jewish seafaring family, quit medical school for a job at sea, sailed as a stoker, got his first glimpse of Greenland at 20. He returned thereafter with various expeditions, soon learned to talk, live, love like an Eskimo. In 1912 Freuchen and his friend Knud Rasmussen crossed the north Greenland icecap. Childlike in his daring, steel-girded in his endurance, he once (1923) hammered off the frozen toes of his left foot, hopped actively on a peg leg after a subsequent amputation. With his face also frozen, Freuchen grew a full red beard, only shaved briefly...
...Lieut. Colonel Erik Helge Thalin, a Swede, and Major Miller Envit, a Dane, jeeped forward to check on the shooting. A Jordan villager, enraged over the recent death of a near relative, opened fire with a Sten gun and seriously wounded Colonel Thalin. Three days later Svend Rasmussen, a Danish radio technician, was killed by an anti-vehicle mine laid on a frontier path used only by U.N. observers...
...Rasmussen. For his money, Weston will become the third biggest grocer on the North American continent, with $1.3 billion annual sales and 1,025 stores (712 National Tea stores, 313 in Weston's Loblaw chain) in 14 U.S. states and Canada. Only A.& P. and Safeway Stores are bigger. For Capitalist Cuneo, who bought 348,000 shares ten years ago at about $5 a share, the deal was a bonanza. By selling all but 5,000 shares at a reported price of $60 a share, Cuneo made a profit estimated at nearly $20 million...
...National, McNamara found trouble everywhere. After the death in 1936 of George S. Rasmussen, its Danish immigrant founder (in 1899), the company went into the red. Finally, John McKinlay, a former president of Marshall Field & Co., got control. Under him, the chain stayed in the red till 1940, when the war put it into the black. McNamara found the chain burdened by paper work and centralized control that failed to respond to local needs. McNamara set up nine semiautonomous branches, whose managers do their own buying, advertising and pricing. He bought out nine competing companies (358 stores), closed up white...