Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week seemed purging itself of influenza. The epidemic, which began in the South and Southwest, marked its peristaltic movement northeastward by a death toll increasing week by week: 807, 1,123, 1,327, 1,568, 1.775. Last week, however, only the Great Lakes region and New England had much to fear from the disease...
...fantastic heights of finance, was reorganized last week, first of the Kreugered interests to burn bright again. Granted a moratorium last May, the company has been run by three administrators (similar to U S receivers) appointed by the Swedish Government. Cooperating with creditors and representatives of affiliated Kreusrer & Toll (the investment company) and International Match Corp., they evolved a workable scheme and the moratorium was lifted. Creditors were not asked to scale down their claims; they will receive 6% interest, the principal will be paid off gradually out of earnings. Capital was reduced 75% to 90,000,000 kronor (about...
...Lindbergh flew to Paris, 16 other planes have reached Europe from the U. S. Nearly as many have roared eastward to disaster; some of them to oblivion, others to be rescued. In the past season alone, six Europe-bound planes dropped into the Atlantic. The Pacific likewise has taken toll. Rescue work is often as dangerous as, usually more costly than the actual flights attempted. Formerly the Department of Commerce only looked on, conceding that many transocean flights were worthwhile experiments. But nowadays, with conventional equipment, they are apt to be merely repetitious. Last week the Department took action. Assistant...
Large creditors centered some hopes last week on a writ served in Stockholm on Ernst Kreuger, the 80-year-old father of Scoundrel Ivar, and other directors of his collapsed holding company, Kreuger & Toll. The writ charges Father Kreuger & Directors with "gross negligence," accuses them of letting Scoundrel Ivar do with the company whatever he liked, seeks to collect from the Board of Directors damages equivalent to the losses of Kreuger & Toll. How great these losses are, accountants who have been ferreting & figuring ever since last spring were still unable to say last week...
Stockholm police arrested Brother Torsten Kreuger last month when the receivers for Kreuger & Toll sued him for more than $1,000,000 in cash and securities which he was alleged to have received from Scoundrel Ivar some six months before the crash. It was Brother Torsten who flew to Paris and secured custody of Brother Ivar's body without an autopsy being performed. At that time Brother Torsten had the diplomatic rank of a Swedish consul general, lived far more lavishly in Stockholm than Brother Ivar whom Swedes called "The Man Who Never Gambles...