Word: swedishly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chief justice dropped easily back into the health-guarding routine which he follows when in Washington-up at 7 o'clock to be pummelled by a strong Swedish masseur; breakfast of hard-toasted bran bread-(oh, how different from the oranges, beefsteaks and sugary coffee which he used to swallow when he was a 332-pounder in the White House and when he said, "Things are in a sad state of affairs when a man can't even call his gizzard his own!") Until 11:30, he reads and dictates in his study; then by motor...
Perhaps, as he lies under invigorating Swedish digits of a morning, Mr. Chief Justice reflects, or talks, about past and present-perhaps somewhat as follows...
Like many another international tycoon, Matchmaker Kreuger is under 50. The son of an unsuccessful matchmaker, Ivar Kreuger went to the Swedish Polytechnic Institute, became an engineer. Kreuger & Toll started business as an engineering firm. But, when Father Kreuger became involved in serious difficulties, Son Ivar left engineering and turned to matchmaking. His initial success was the 1913 merger. When his combine wedded the Jonkoping group in 1917, Matchmaker Kreuger made the match. He is managing director of Swedish Match, president of International Match, chairman of the board of Swedish-American Investment Corp., and, of course, head of all-controlling...
Matchmaker Kreuger speaks fluently Swedish, English, French, German. He has more than a smattering of Russian and Finnish. But he would have to speak at least 50 languages and dialects if he were to conduct personally all the affairs of the International Match Co. Within the last three years, Matchmaker Kreuger has concluded shrewd deals in Poland, Peru, Greece, Norway, Germany, France, Jugoslavia, Japan, Ecuador, Esthonia. International Match Co. controls 75% of U. S. production, through the wholly owned Vulcan Match Co., and through the "biggest" Diamond Match Co. This company has a contract with the Swedish monopoly...
Moon. At the time the International Match Co. sprang into being (1923), the Swedish Match Co. announced a curious statistic. It assured the dubious that match boxes, produced in eight months at its factories, placed end to end, would reach from the earth to the moon...