Word: svenska
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into United Swedish Match Factories, Ltd. He then reorganized Kreuger & Toll as a holding company for the match factories, left Herr Toll to look out for the construction end of his business. In 1917, Jönköping-Vulcan and United Swedish were merged into Swedish Match Co.-Svenska Tands-ticksaktiebolaget-and Herr Kreuger had achieved the first of his many monopolies. The monopolistic aspect of Herr Kreuger's activities have caused most comment and criticism. In Poland, Peru, Greece, Ecuador, Hungary, Esthonia, Jugo-Slavia, Rumania, Latvia he has an absolute match monopoly, guaranteed by the governments concerned...
...first step came in 1903, when an Englishman named Fred Lowenadler guided the merger of six factories into the Jonkopings och Vulcans Tandstickfabriks-aktiebolag. Ten years went by before the remaining import companies were led by Ivar Kreuger into the Aktiebolaget Forenade Svenska Tandstickfabriker. These two combines functioned independently until 1917, when they agreed on a cost-saving and letter-saving merger. They became, briefly, the Svenska Tandsticksaktiebolaget. Translated literally, they became the Swedish Match...
...Svenska brawn with a girl's face on its wishbone...
Royalty turning its hand to playwrighting is unusual. Stockholm, nevertheless, will see Kinangozi by Prince Wilhelm at the Svenska Theatre in January. Anglo-African settlers and native blacks are the characters...
...Berlin correspondent of the Svenska Morgenblad, Stockholm journal, reported that President Ebert of Germany had bought a chateau in Switzerland. From this it was deducted that the President will shortly resign...