Word: swedes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farmer's will. In 1927 Bibliophile Rosenbach bid higher than any man had ever before bid on a single piece of Americana, paid $51,000 for a letter by Signer Button Gwinnett. Four years ago Yale University awarded its Rowland Prize for distinctive achievement in architecture to Swede Ragnar Ostberg, designer of Stockholm's famed $2,500,000 Town Hall, hoped he would give a lecture or two in return. Last week Prizeman Ostberg returned to the U. S. for the first time in 41 years to lecture at Yale. Later in Washington he will receive from President...
Garbo the glamorous, the alluring Swede...
Anna Sten (real name Anjuschka Stenski) was born in Kiev in 1910. Her father was a Russian dancer. Her mother was a Swede. Anna Sten became a movie actress at 15. Since then the principal complications of her career have been linguistic...
...Soviet reader were asked to name his favorite U. S. author he would probably say John Dos Passes. If the same question were put to a Swede, the first name off his tongue would doubtless be that Nobel Prizeman Sinclair Lewis. But such a loyal Swede would have in mind Author Lewis' earlier, better books (Main Street, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry). With such a second-rate novel as Work of Art following hard on the heels of his mediocre Ann Vickers (TIME, Jan. 30, 1933), readers of any nationality can see with half an eye that Sinclair Lewis is slipping...
...picked out vacuum cleaners as a likely product to distribute. But the War stopped his plans for an international selling organization. With capital of 120,000 kroner (about $32,000) A. B. Elektrolux was launched in 1919. Thereafter the rise of Axel Wenner-Gren was swift-even for a Swede. Vacuum cleaners were supplemented with household appliances and later with absorption-type refrigerators.* Today Elektrolux products are sold in nearly every country in the world, while the capitalization of A. B. Elektrolux has grown a thousand-fold to 120,000,000 kroner...