Business: Diamond Deal?

Tucked away in the detailed, careful, 133-page report of Diamond Match Co. for 1929 is the statement: "Your company's 10-year agency contract with the Swedish Match Co. expires December 31, 1930." No surprise was this statement for in December 1928, Ivar Kreuger's $350,000,000 Swedish Match Trust served formal notice upon Diamond that the agreement would not be extended. Yet the approach of the actual termination has made more vivid the question of who will soon be supplying the U. S. with strike-on-the-box matches.* Diamond has made a few, hints it may make more...

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