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	The Upper East Side Book: Park Avenue: 791 Park Avenue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ivar Kreuger, the Swedish match king, took the penthouse in 1927, according to James Trager, "Park Avenue, Street of Dreams," (Atheneum, 1990).
		"Early in 1932 the Swedish mountebank Ivar Kreuger shot himself in his Paris apartment, leaving behind a mountain of debt and a New York penthouse at 791 Park.
		Traffic noises bounded off its high brick penthouse parapet, over which ‘unbelievable willow trees,’ planted by Kreuger, tossed ‘great leafy hoopskirts in careless abandon.’ The apartment itself lay empty and ‘dilapidated’ in the wake of its previous owner’s suicide.
	www.thecityreview.com /ues/parkave/park791.htm (368 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Night of January 16th at Epinions.com
		During the examination of Kreuger's life, his methods and fraud were not held up as crimes, but rather his ambition and success was criticized.
		Rand was inspired to write about Kreuger because she wanted to examine not his political leanings nor the downfall of a once successful man, but rather the public denunciation of him.
		She believed the public's distaste for Kreuger was not of his later shady methods of finance, but rather his greatness, his confidence and his ability.
	www.epinions.com /content_107452403332 (1063 words)

	"Poor Kreuger" -- Monday, Mar. 21, 1932 -- Page 2 -- TIME
		Ivar Kreuger's business life was known to only a handful of men.
		Ivan Kreuger's father had a small match factory which was not making money.
		Match-man Kreuger at the time was so well entrenched in India that he could afford to exclude that vast market from the Bryant & May deal.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,743409-2,00.html (680 words)

	Kreuger & Toll - Famous Swedish Match Company Bankruptcy - 1928
		This historic document was has an ornate border around it with a backprint of a building in Sweden.
		Ivan Kreuger, a Swede, was the famous "match king" who acquired monopolies to sell matches in various countries around the world.
		Kreuger & Toll - Famous Fraud - 1928
	www.goantiques.com /detail,kreuger-toll-famous,340379.html (205 words)

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		Yet even though many suspected this already, few were willing to stop the delirium, for everyone who played the stock market was making a profit.
		Nevertheless, as Ivan Kreuger summarizes, which is the typical thinking during and after the boom, "Whatever success I have had may perhaps be attributable to three things: one is silence, the second is silence, while the third is still more silence" (pg, 93).
		In reading, John Kenneth Galbraith's The Great Crash 1929 one comes to the opinion that stock market crash occurred as a collective effort; it was initiated by a handful of speculators and then ameliorated by the masses who participated in the boom.
	www.angelfire.com /bc/allan/essays/1929crash.html (2714 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Glurge Gallery (Fortunate Sons)
		Ivar Kreuger was the "Match King," a Swedish businessman who founded and ran Kreuger & Toll, a multi-billion-dollar match conglomerate.
		Kreuger, like other financial crooks of his era, was essentially running a huge pyramid scheme through a complex structure of hundreds of subsidiary shell companies, hiding his manipulation by cooking the company books and insisting that financial statements not be audited.
		Kreuger shot himself on 12 March 1932, although rumors have persisted that his death was a case of murder and not suicide.
	www.snopes.com /glurge/fortune.asp (3175 words)

	Kreuger & Toll - Famous Fraud - 1928
		This item has printed signatures of the company's officers and is over 74 years old.
		When the pyramid tottered at the start of the Great Depression, Kreuger took his life.
		Kreuger & Toll - Famous Swedish Match Company Bankruptcy - 1928
	www.goantiques.com /detail,kreuger-toll-famous,340378.html (167 words)

	The BCCI Affair - 2 Introduction
		For example, as far back as the 1920's, the International Match Corp bilked shareholders and lenders out of some $500 million through switching company assets and liabilities among a series of shell entities, creating fictional assets when existing ones were adequate, and through transferring funds from the United States offshore.
		All the while, its chairman, Ivan Kreuger, maintained friendships with numerous world leaders including then U.S. President Herbert Hoover, in a manner reminiscent of BCCI's founder Agha Hasan Abedi's relationships wit President Carter a half a century later.
		During the 1960's, the Channel Islands off the coast of England became the host to a series of post-off box banks, including the infamous Bank of Sark, whose facilities including a room over a pub, a desk and a telephone.
	www.fas.org /irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/02intro.htm (1578 words)

	Scandal
		November 15, 1986 - The SEC fined Ivan F. Boesky $100 million for insider stock trading.
		Ivan F. Boesky was sentenced to three years in prison for Wall Street's largest insider-trading scandal.
		Kreuger, Ivar, 1880-1932; Svenska tändsticks AB--History; Kreuger and Toll--History; Sveriges riksbank--History; Commercial criminals--Sweden--Biography; Swindlers and swindling--Sweden--Biography; International finance--Corrupt practices--History; Match industry--History.
	www.kipnotes.com /Scandal.htm (2499 words)

	Debevoise And Plimpton By Marty Schultz-Ackerson
		The firm demonstrated its powerhouse potential early on by assuming a frontline role in the bankruptcy case of "Swedish Match King" Ivan Kreuger in 1934.
		Kreuger had achieved a worldwide dominance of the match industry and was one of wealthiest men in the world before the NYSE crash led to his demise.
		The firm still represents the North American division of Swedish Match, which emerged from Kreuger's empire, as well as such long-time clients as American Airlines, DaimlerChrysler, and Goldman Sachs.
	www.lawcrossing.com /article/index.php?id=192 (921 words)

	Carl Cryplant's Music in Volumes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For ‘Brother’ of Lou Salomé and rival of Friedrich Nietzsche, Paul Ludwig Carl Heinrich Ree in 1901 at the age of 52 by jumping off a rock.
		For Swedish ‘Lucifer-king’ Ivan Kreuger in 1932 at the age of 52 by gunshots.
		For Minister of science, technology and energy, Damrong Lathapipat in 1985 at the age of 52 by a shot through the head.
	carlcryplant.podomatic.com /entry/2006-06-15T05_53_31-07_00 (3199 words)

	Best horror movie icon - 3D Realms Forums
		At least he's more interesting than Michael Myers (I'm probably the only person who thought Halloween was boring as hell)...
		I thought Myers, Kreuger, and Voorhees all sucked.
		I voted Ash, but Freddy was the runner up.
	forums.3drealms.com /vb/showthread.php?t=14974 (1385 words)

	Spy Hunt (1950) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A panther has a message inserted into a collar around its neck, a message which is of great interest to some questionable characters.
		The panther escapes its cage and is tracked by Howard Duff, representing the U.S. and by parties who represent the subversives (Ivan Tresault being one of them).
		The entire film deals with the search and provides some very tense moments.
	uk.imdb.com /Title?0042991 (249 words)

	European Business: October 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This triggered Ericsson’s first wave of internationalisation, well before World War I. From the 1890s to the 1950s, Ericsson was a major telecom corporation.
		Stable expansion ended in the early 1930s, however, when corporate autonomy was lost for three decades due to the financial speculation of Ivan Kreuger.
		When “The Match King” committed suicide in 1932, one of his creditors, Sothenes Behn’s ITT, acquired a substantial stake in Ericsson.
	europeanbusiness.eu.com /features/2005/oct/nordicgiants.html (1754 words)

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		Janis Joplin, some time ago divined this in her "Big Brother and the Holding Company", and she was no economist.
		Ivan Kreuger and Samuel Insull, American citizens who had ties to Joe Kennedy and the Crash of '29.
		They swindled investors out of their life savings through pyramid plans and holding companies.
	www.angelfire.com /de/Boiishaft/B-Traven-Circle.html (18367 words)

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		The page references in the next five sections refer to CWVI.
		Cartels and trusts The six papers on cartels and trusts (a seventh is an obituary of Ivan Kreuger, who at one time had control of over 75 per cent of the world production of matches) were written in the late 1920s and reflect the extensive role of international cartels in the inter-war period.
		The papers suggest that the market position of these cartels comes from the pursuit of power rather than for efficiency reasons (e.g.
	129.11.89.221 /MKB/MalcolmSawyer/kalecki_review.doc (8364 words)

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