Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their switchboards do not connect. Last week, a $49 million merger was completed to end this inconvenience. The new combination would be called Telefonos de Mexico, S.A., and an old hand at empire-building hoped that it would make him Mexico's telephone king. The man: Sweden's famed Axel Wenner-Gren...
With a Viking's daring, blue-eyed Axel Wenner-Gren founded the Swedish-Electrolux Co. in 1919 and girdled the world with its subsidiaries. Before long, he also controlled the Swedish paper-pulp trust. He bought out Krupp's interest in Sweden's Bofors antiaircraft gun, and started a military airplane plant to make the things the guns shoot...
...Nightmare Alley had a sardonic toughness which, to their detriment, U.S. films have almost lost. Jean Renoir made Woman on the Beach an artful blend of mood and melodrama. Delmer Daves enlarged his conspicuous promise as a writer-director with two melodramas, The Red House and The Dark Passage. Sweden's Torment was, in its first half, one of any good year's ten best...
Knowledge of the language of each country is the main requisite. Countries included in the plan are France, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, England, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden...
...Tons Passengers America 26,314 1,050 BRITAIN Queen Elizabeth 83,673 2,314 Queen Mary 81,235 1,987 Mauretania 35,677 1,157 Media 13,700 250 NETHERLANDS Veendam 15,652 530 Noordam 10,726 150 Wester dam 12,149 150 FRANCE De Grasse 18,435 711 SWEDEN Gripsholm 18,134 1,400 Drottningholm 11,055 700 ITALY (but U.S.-operated) Saturnia 19,637 1,600 Vulcania 24,469 1,600 SPAIN Magallanes 9,689 550 Marques de Comillas 9,922 550 Habana 8,279 100 POLAND Batory 14,287 832 Sobieski 10,030 766 NORWAY Stavangerfjord...