Business: Matches, Groceries, Fords

Three gigantic corporations selling cheap and universal products last week issued their 1930 reports, revealed that fortune was not all frowns last year.

Matches. Far flung are the operations of Kreuger & Toll Co., holding company for the great "Swedish Match Trust," for 21 industrial banking and real estate operations, for the Grangesberg Co. iron mines (Europe's biggest), for the control of L. M. Ericsson Telephone Co. Master of its many operations, getter of its match monopolies is close-shaven,quick-speaking Ivar Kreuger, self-made, much publicized "world's...

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