Word: scandinavianism
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...appointment has already been made. Einar Haugen, now at the University of Wisconsin, will become a professor of Scandinavian and Linguistics on July 1. President Pusey is expected to recommend at least two, and possibly as many as four, additional sush joint appointments to the Board of Overseers at their meeting Monday...
...here. Baker's book is his own; its mistakes and its successes have edges too rough to have been cut by imitation. The author is in the ridiculous position of a man who, in all good faith, has written a good, sound, playable five act tragedy about a Scandinavian prince whose father has just been murdered by his uncle...
...deposits from branches around the world. But in London, 17 smaller merchant banks, most of them family-dominated, rank as "The Princes of the City." The biggest of the tight-mouthed princes, who ignore common customers for corporations and countries, is Hambros Bank, Ltd., which has arranged financing for Scandinavian timber, South African diamonds and $20 million worth of Manhattan's Pan Am Building. In a move symbolic of the new direction that London's princely bankers are now taking, Hambros has just announced that in partnership with the U.S.'s Meyers Bros. Parking System it will...
...lines, reduced costly inventories and held back on hirings in order to reduce the white-collar staff by 8.2%. Result: the parent company's profits nearly doubled in two years. While accomplishing this, Nicolin was also lent out temporarily by the Wallenbergs to become president of the sick Scandinavian Airlines System. Using the same management techniques that were working at ASEA, he almost immediately cut SAS's losses of $193,000 a day. After nine months at SAS, he returned to ASEA, leaving behind an airline so revitalized that this year it is expected...
...selection is huge: tripes a la mode de caen and cassoulet toulousain from France, passion fruit and paw-paw from Africa, canned minnows from Poland, hearts of palm from Brazil, 180 different varieties of honey, and Scandinavian sardines packed in six kinds of sauce. There are instant coffees from at least a score of countries, including Hungary and Arabia; there are quail eggs and cuttle fish (a member of the squid family) packed in their own ink. And there are betel nuts, which, excepting coffee and tea, rank as the most widely used narcotic in the world...