Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delighted surprise of the Mirror, which doubted that Andy's appeal would survive south of the Midlands, he was instantly popular all over the island. Soon the strip crossed to the mainland and picked up such pseudonyms as Kasket Karl (Denmark), Tuff a Victor (Sweden), and Jan Met de Pet (The Netherlands). When Andy spanned the Atlantic to join the stable of New York's Hall Syndicate, his success was equally smashing. Among the charter subscribers: the Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, and Marshalltown (Iowa) Times-Republican...
Hands-Off Policy. Too many economists, writes Myrdal, seem mesmerized by the French economy, which is heavily nationalized and regimented. Sweden, he suggests, should be their model instead. Both Swedish workers and employers have voluntarily formed central organizations for collective bargaining. These groups consider the national interest when they make price and wage agreements, and they have prevented the costly strikes that harass the U.S. economy. The Swedish government follows a strict hands-off policy: it has not even had to set a minimum wage. But Myrdal admits that the voluntarism that works for small Sweden, with a population less...
...leaders in sales of calculating machines. Its Westrex division ranks first in sales of sound-recording systems, and its Western Geophysical division first in seismic explorations. Litton is the nation's third biggest private shipbuilder. Its systems division sells more inertial-guidance systems than anyone else, and its Sweden-based Svenska is the world's second largest maker of cash registers. Across the world, Litton men are mapping underground volcanic activity in Hawaii, searching for oil beneath the North Sea, scouring the jungles of Surinam for precious minerals...
...that time only France, Germany, Sweden and Great Britain were participants, but the program quickly expanded to the rest of Europe and finally to the United States...
Europe's Common Market is prospering so much that nearly everybody wants in. Spain, Sweden and Austria are knocking at the club's door. Israel and Iran are negotiating a trade pact with Europe's Six. In Africa, 18 former French, Belgian and Italian colonies recently signed an export-boosting treaty with the Market. Last week, in the first break away from the solid ranks of the British Commonwealth nations, Nigeria asked the Six to consider some kind of association with it. Many Common Marketeers favor the bid from black Africa's biggest nation (pop. some...