Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rhin. anxiously arrived. As Herr Littorin pushed into the bedroom President Kreuger, dressed in a business suit, seemed peacefully asleep upon his bed. Manhattan's Stock Exchange was still open. The French police were instructed by a Cabinet Minister to keep mum. Even when selling of Kreuger & Toll in Wall Street became so fast & furious that 25.5% of all shares traded were of this issue, no U. S. news agency thought to cable Paris for news of the Match King. His friends announced his death after all world markets closed. Swedish Match once loaned...
...course know that Ivar Kreuger was going to commit suicide, but they had taken precautionary steps. If anything should happen (and there were numerous "anythings" in addition to suicide the Royal Government was ready to rush through a bill to stabilize Swedish business by granting a moratorium to Kreuger & Toll. When the news came, the Swedish Parliament put through this bill at a secret session, ordered Swedish stock exchanges to remain closed. For years conservative Swedish financiers have frowned on Ivar Kreuger's operations as "too big for Sweden...
...merger of many of the companies formed Vulcan Match Manufacturing Co. which began to force the smaller companies out. In 1907 Ivar Kreuger, then 27, arrived in Stockholm after several years spent in the U. S. as a construction engineer. (He built Syracuse University's Stadium.) He and Paul Toll formed Kreuger & Toll Co. to do engineering work, but in a few years the company's function had changed to a holding company for the expanding of Kreuger match interests...
Bank failures continued to dwindle (see p. 15). The toll for the year's first two months was 494 suspensions of which 370 occurred in January...
Sirs: Capt. Charles P. Smith's (Candidate for Congressman-at-large, Henderson, Texas) cordial invitation to you to take toll of your intestinal fortitude and decide whether or not you could withstand a visit to Impeacher Patman's district is untimely. Lacking or not lacking in intestinal fortitude, I am not lacking in my knowledge of Cass County. TIME'S statement is correct. There are hillbillies in Cass County. Lovable ones, however, and politicians. Rabbits have been cornered in hollow logs in Patman's district. And snuff (between lower lip and teeth, perhaps Levi Garett...