Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unfinished Symphony No. 8, in B Minor. The awards will be apportioned as follows: One first prize ($750), one second prize ($250) and a third prize (honorable mention) to be awarded to winners in each of the following ten zones-U. S.; Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Jugoslavia, Rumania; Denmark, Sweden, Norway; France, Belgium, Switzerland; Germany, Holland; Great Britain; Italy; Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland; Spain, Portugal; Russia, Ukrania. A grand prize of $10,000 will be awarded to the final winner, selected as the best of the first prize winners. The contest will be under the supervision of the Society...
...despatches that the Vereinigte Stahlwerke (United Steel Works), second in size only to the United States Steel Corp., had signed contracts for a $34,000,000 loan-$30,000,000 to be sold in the U. S. through Dillon, Read & Co., and $4,000,000 in England, Switzerland, Holland, Sweden. An unusual feature of the proposed bonds is that they will draw interest and in addition will get 6½% more for every 1% increase in Vereinigte Stahlwerke's common stock dividend rate. The common rate is now 6%. If it becomes 1%, the new bonds will draw...
...Swedish Houses of Parliament. One of the cleanest and most sanitary cities of the world was greeting its foreign visitors.* In the Concert Hall where the convention proceedings opened, the great organ played for 20 minutes. Then Axel F. Wallenberg, onetime Minister to the U. S. from Sweden, spoke (in English): "I have something to say to the representatives of the United States. . . . Allow me to say a few words as a Swede. In the name of my countrymen I thank you and all the citizens of the wonderful country on the other side of the water most heartily...
Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden and his wife, who were in the Stockholm Concert Hall listened with obvious pleasure. King Gustaf, also there, applauded vigorously...
...Stockholm, Sweden, the view was good. But at Fagernas, Norway, thick clouds made useless the efforts of Dr. Samuel A. Mitchell of Leander-McCormick Observatory (University of Virginia), head of a large U. S. expedition...