Word: vulcan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kreuger sideline, but most of the modern business structures of Stockholm are Kreuger-built and many are Kreuger-owned. The Construction Period lasted six years; then in 1913, Herr Kreuger entered the match business. At that time the greatest Swedish match company was the Jönköping-Vulcan combination. Herr Kreuger's first step was to unite all the independent match companies into United Swedish Match Factories, Ltd. He then reorganized Kreuger & Toll as a holding company for the match factories, left Herr Toll to look out for the construction end of his business...
...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 for the sale of foreign matches in the U. S. until 1930. Last year International Match consolidated its interests with Bryant & May, Ltd., biggest British-owned match company to control the market...
...Other less famed trucks that were absent: Gotfredson, Hahn, Henney, Hercules, Hermath, Kankakee, Lathrop, Master, Menominee, Michigan, Oneida, Oshkosh, Red Ball, Sayers, Standard, Stoughton, Tiffin, Traylor, Vulcan...
...That talkative, bald-headed seaman," wily Ulysses, is supposed to have done battle in Sicily with Polyphemus, member of the gigantic tribe of Cyclopes, who had but one eye, in the centre of their foreheads, and were believed by the Greeks to forge iron for Vulcan. The historical originals of this tribe were probably Pelasgians, who worked in underground quarries, wearing lanterns or flares on their beads...
...proud to work for "Hydraulic." Beneker has a flair for the descriptive title to catch the worker's imagination-" Galvanized American " "Men Are Square," Gray Matter " ("portrait" of a huge hydraulic press). He traces the lineage of Industrial Art to Velasquez and his Forge of Vulcan, painted in Italy for Philip IV of Spain...