Word: stockholm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Abruptly, Royal Boss Reza created the Persian Foreign Trade Department, gave it monopoly powers. Last week in Stockholm a swarthy Representative of the P. F. T. D. let important contracts to eleven Swedish firms, among them Swedish General Electric, Atlas Diesel (engines), Nydquist & Holm (locomotives) and the Gota Shipyards. Persia's blanket purchase totaled $2,680,000, represents chiefly structural steel, rails and other equipment for modernizing Persia's transport system...
...visiting athletes have been invited to engage in the international games at Cologne, Berlin, Oslo, Stockholm, and Copenhagen during July and August, with expenses pro-rated among the several clubs conducting the meets. It is expected that a total of only six or seven men will be chosen, and these have been designated by the A. A. U. to represent the United States; no other American team will be picked. Control by Harvard and Yale athletic authorities will end with the London meet...
...Harvard team decide to compete, Farrell plans to accompany them. "Probably they will not want to enter all of the five games," he said; "each is a two-day affair, and that's a lot of racing after a college season. The chief meets are at Cologne and Stockholm." George Connors, Eli mentor, will probably return after the Oxford-Cambridge meeting...
...Reichsbank, stiff-starched Dr. Hjalmar ("Iron Man") Schacht has been posturing and talking as though he were still Germany's "financial spokesman." Throughout the world last week, holders of the so-called ''Young Plan Bonds" (German Government 5½s) winced when Dr. Schacht answered in Stockholm a smart Swedish reporter's question...
...Reported a Stockholm correspondent: "Flocks of reindeer often meet trains in the northern districts. The train personnel carries knives to kill the injured deer...