Swedish Economic Association. In November 1940, he discussed problems of industrial production and adjusting investments, and in January 1947 the new tax proposals, while in April 1950 he talked about competition and ideology. In 1952 and 1957, he commented on the Government’s budget proposals. Later on, he discussed the role of Swedish industry in Europe in essays on Swedish industry in the common market and Swedish industrial production in the European
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market. When Ruben Rausing’s wife Elisabeth was diagnosed with cancer in 1939 and after her death from the disease in 1946, he worked with medical researchers to try to solve the mystery of the dis- Report from the 1944 Traffic Comease. After experiments on horses Rausing formu- mission of which Ruben Rausing was lated the hypothesis that healthy individuals were
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protected by certain hormones, that a surplus of these were produced and that urine from healthy individuals could be used to cure cancer patients. He funded a research team under the leadership of Professor Ernst Wollheim, which conducted studies in mice. In a short essay entitled “Reflections on Cancer” in 1950 Rausing summarised