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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made in its home or foreign factories. Big customer of Swedish Match has been Germany, where the company controls 70% of the match production. Last month it was rumored that there had arrived in Berlin the man who is behind the great Swedish Trust, Ivar Kreuger, mainspring of Kreuger & Toll Co. which holds the majority interest in Swedish Match. As usual with Kreuger visits, his object was not known, his movements veiled in mystery. Germans wondered if it were in connection with one of the several German banks in which he is heavily interested, or the German ballbearing industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Monopolist | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Football has taken the largest toll of players with three letter-men: S. L. Batchelder '31, W. D. Ticknor '31, and T. W. Gilligan '31, on the football squad. Charles Devens '32, Reginald Fincke '32, E. A. Mays Jr. '32, and W. B. Wood Jr. '32, all of whom played on last year's Freshman team are also out for football. J. A. Prior '29 and G. E. Donaghy '29, first and third basemen respectively, have been lost through graduation, as well as A. G. Whitney '29, left-fielder, and Howard Whitmore Jr. '29, pitcher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWENTY-FIVE MEN ARE OUT FOR FALL BASEBALL PRACTICE | 9/27/1929 | See Source »

...material a line which impressed all of its opponents as being more powerful for sheer power that is than almost any other forward wall in the country cannot go by unmentioned. This year, their second together, should find their coaching system at its peak. With excellent material who can toll what manner of irresistible machine may not be created...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up By Time Out | 9/26/1929 | See Source »

Said Writer White: "The Texas Tammany boys not only tell the taxpayers to go to hell, but, out of the goodness of their hearts, provide them with a handy route in the shape of a heavily bonded high- way and a costly toll bridge which lands them right at the very door of the place. A committee of Congressmen went to Hidalgo County and studied the technique of Baker, Creager & Co., when they were ready to remark: 'Well, this is all too fancy for us. Philadelphia at its best was never like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scooper Scooped | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

Wood Pulp. Ten of the largest saw mills in northern Sweden, producing about one-fifth of Sweden's pulp and having assets of $75,000,000, were last week merged by the formation of a holding company to be controlled by Kreuger & Toll (financial company of the Swedish match trust). They will be given a unified selling agency and the holding company will build a new sulphate pulp factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Deals & Mergers | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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