Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elbows with untitled folk. Britain's Princess Anne, 13, and Jordan's Princess Basma, 12, were at boarding school at Benenden, 42 miles from London. Would they make their own beds? panted reporters. Of course. And would Radcliffe's first royal student, Sweden's Princess Christina, 20? Yes, she nodded wearily to Boston newsmen. Having attended to the questions, the blonde princess set about orienting herself, and so did Harvard students. Turned out that pretty Christina had brought along from Sweden her own toughest competition. Shipping Heiress Antonia Johnson. "There's the princess," noted...
...U.S.A." label has won worldwide respect-but it was buttressed by some hard statistics. By its sheer size, the U.S. leads the world in total exports, and still it sells only 4% of its gross national product abroad, v. 9% for Japan, 16% for West Germany, 19% for Sweden. In the face of increased competition by Japan, Britain and the Common Market, the U.S. share of world exports has shriveled from 26% in 1953 to 20%. Moreover, only U.S. exports tied to foreign aid are actually increasing, and straight commercial exports are declining. The Administration had hoped...
Stainless is created by blending the high-grade steel with chromium carbides, which toughen it, make it resistant to rust, corrosion and great heat. Sweden's steelmakers cold-roll the stainless steel to 4/1,000 in., then grind, polish and cut it into blade-wide coils before shipping it to the blademakers, who stamp and sharpen the final blade. Stainless is also indispensable in making nuclear reactors, missiles, jet engines and supersonic plane wings, as well as surgical instruments and food-processing equipment...
Prized Order. Of Sweden's 30 steelmakers, two dominate the stainless blade market. One is Sandvik Steel Works, a $100 million-a-year company that sells more than half of the world's regular razor-blade steel. Its far-traveling president, Engineer Wilhelm Haglund, 60, made several flying trips to Boston in the past year to win the prized order to become Gillette's prime supplier for stainless...
...with silicon plastic to make it smooth as well as sharp.* Wilkinson's steel comes from Uddeholm, which also supplies American Safety Razor and Schick. Under its research-minded president, Wilhelm Ekman, 51, Uddeholm has quadrupled its stainless blade output since 1961, now produces 80% to 90% of Sweden's stainless blade steel, and has annual sales of $109 million...