Word: sweden
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...fined. You walk on the left side and you are fined." The average Congolese has little legal redress. Today, in a nation three times the size of Texas, there are only 47 judges to hear complaints-all foreigners, imported by the U.N. from such countries as Egypt, Sweden, Spain and Switzerland...
...century ago, miserly August Thyssen gained hold of high-grade ore supplies in Sweden and France and built ore-skimpy Germany into a major steel power. His son, Fritz Thyssen, was the first industrialist to support Hitler, but in 1939 denounced him and spent most of the war in a Nazi internment camp; he died in 1951. Fritz Thyssen's widow, Amelie, now 85, proved resourceful: she found loopholes in the Allied decartelization decrees and gradually welded together much of the old steel dynasty. From her Bavarian castle, Frau Thyssen today controls 52% of Phoenix stock...
Died. Carl Florman, 76, Sweden's pioneer of commercial aviation, founder and longtime (1924-49) president of Swedish Air Lines, a spirited optimist who in 1937 talked the Russians into granting his line the first regularly scheduled route from the West to Moscow, saw his company become the cornerstone in 1946 of the $137 million Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Stockholm...
...alarmed Swedes lined up at state-run package stores to buy what they could, the government restricted akvavit sales to a bottle per customer. And word went out that unless something is done this week, fully a third of all Sweden's liquor stores will be out of akvavit altogether. Bootleggers turned up furtively with the popular Brännvin akvavit, asking $20 for the bottle which normally sells for $5. "A disaster," muttered one Swede, waiting his turn in a Stockholm queue. In the south, some desperate Swedes were even hopping ferries across to Denmark to seek relief...
...When Sweden's Count Bernadotte came to dinner one evening during one of the frequent remodelings of the Rosenthal manor. Lavinia set the table on a high scaffold. The guests sat precariously eight feet above the floor-eating, naturally, off Rosenthal china...