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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...
...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...