Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Banking houses in seven great centres of finance interchanged telephone calls, cable messages. In Manhattan, the house of Lee, Higginson & Co. knew what associated houses were doing in London, in Berlin, in Sweden, Holland, Switzerland, Belgium. At a given moment, last week, the seven groups acted together, announced a Swedish financing deal...
Matchmakers. A sad-faced Swede named Johan Edvard Lundstrom had erected a match factory at his native Jonkoping ir. 1845. Starting with a small shop, he and Brother Carl Frans swiftly widened their market. In 1850 Brother Carl Frans visited England, talked business with Matchmakers Bryant & May. Thus began Sweden's export of matches...
Success at Jonkoping fired all Sweden to imitation. In Central and South Sweden every community had its local factory, fighting competition from older, stronger companies. By the end of the century, those which survived recognized the need of consolidation...
...ensuing State Banquet a toast was proposed by His Most Protestant Majesty Gustaf V to "The first King of Spain ever to visit Sweden...
...response, the Spaniard raised his glass first to Their Swedish Majesties and then to his own Queen Victoria Eugenie, who, explained he, was not present, solely because of ill health. Since Queen Victoria of Sweden is nearly always indisposed, the monarchs have that bond in common. They cemented cordial relations, later in the week, by indulging together in the "Royal Sport of Scandinavia," slaying moose...