Word: svenska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rydbeck of the Svenska Bank-foreningen (Sweden...
While she was fighting one battle in Washington, Miss Bendelari heard that she had won another in Paris, against no less impressive an opponent than the Svenska Tändsticksaktiebolaget, creditor of nations, holder of huge match monopolies (TIME, Oct. 28). The Swedish Match Trust had bought the building containing her tiny Paris shoe store facing the Place Vendome; she, shrewd, had refused to surrender her $150-a-year lease even when wreckers began to demolish the building. Last week the Trust capitulated, paid her $25,000 for her lease...