Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...club can only afford to go on a major tour once every three or four years, according to John T. Cahill '79, club vice president. Three years ago the group went to Sweden for 20 days over Christmas break, staying in an Upsula Summer Palace...
Volvo badly needed the leverage that the Norwegian deal would have provided. Though it is Sweden's largest company (1978 sales: $4.3 billion), its share of the vitally important U.S. and European auto markets is precariously thin, and profits at home have been squeezed by Sweden's high wages and stagnant productivity. With the price of a top-of-the-line Volvo now $16,000 in most markets Gyllenhammar had been counting on his Norwegian connection for the money needed to develop a radically designed lightweight vehicle that would give the company broader market appeal...
...Chinese went to the Swedes for cooperation in mining, railroads and telecommunications, to the British for $315 million worth of coal-mining equipment, to the Danes for help in improving Shanghai and other ports. They browsed in Sweden, France and England for modern weaponry with which to rearm their badly equipped military forces. They will probably make only a few selective purchases at first, because of their shortage of capital. Chinese and Americans kept up brisk negotiations. Coastal States Gas Corp., a U.S. firm, agreed to buy 3.6 million bbl. of Chinese crude, the first shipment to arrive early this...
...jury based its verdict mostly on the defense's contention that curare could not possibly be found in tissue from bodies that had been buried for more than a decade. To support this, Defense Attorney Raymond Brown called 21 expert witnesses, including one from Sweden...
...Nazis' scheme is to smuggle to the Soviets lists of Britons who have supported the German war effort. Their hope is to inflame Stalin's deep distrust of his allies. The plan goes agley when the documents, hand-carried to Sweden, are used instead to blackmail English industrialists...