Word: sigfrid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sweden. J. Sigfrid Edstrom, chairman of the Swedish General Electric Co., and president of the International Chamber of Commerce, hoped for a worldwide lowering of tariffs and reduction of import quotas. Einar Flygt, vice president of the Swedish Cellulose Co., said Sweden was ready to ship 300,000 tons of chemical pulp (for papermaking) to Britain, and one million tons to the U.S., as soon as the shipping blockade is broken. Some Swedish ships have already been loaded with pulp; he hoped they could sail soon...
Already several thousand subscriptions have poured in from a really remarkable group of Sweden's leaders-from Minister of Finance Ernst Wigforss and former Foreign Minister Rickard Sandler; from industrialists Sigfrid Edström and Torsten Hèrnod; from Managing Director Jacob Wallenberg of Stockholm's Enskilda Bank; and from such other well-known figures as the Countess Ebba Bonde, economist Gunnar Myrdal, and film director Victor Sjöström, who launched Greta Garbo...
Head man and whole show at Flanders Hall is smooth-faced, 25-year-old Sigfrid Hauck. When the firm was incorporated in the fall of 1939, a WPA job had folded under him. He now lives in a comfortable new house. Of 16 Flanders booklets, mainly bitterly Anglophobic, he has unloaded some 22,000 copies at prices ranging from 35? to $2 retail. He expects soon to publish titles "by some very prominent and patriotic Americans," says "I am a great admirer of Wheeler, Lindbergh and men of that caliber...
Says young Sigfrid Hauck: "I have great plans and great hopes. . . . When I get a bestseller, we'll build a garage...