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who was fired from his company

who ran his own company

had difficulty firing his last worker

Ole had to raise his sons alone

Ole`s wife died of a heartattack

Ole had 4 lazy sons

selling holes to foolish people

buying and selling things in large quantities to other merchants

checking the quality of toys

lost all his money and had to shut down his business

decided not to buy the toy he had ordered from Ole

didn`t pay a good price for the toys, so Ole`s family had a poor Christmas

trade all of his toys for groceries(=basic food)

sell some of his toys for money and the rest for groceries

sell all of his toys and bought a lot of food for Christmas

comes from a Danish phrase that means " playing well"

comes from a Latin phrase that means " I put together"

was suggested to him by a truckdriver

wanted to shirk (=avoid doing) his duties

ran out of lacqueur (=transparent paint)

wanted to save money

a moulding machine that could produce plastic blocks

a new machine that could cut out wooden blocks

a moulding machine and decided to stop producing wooden toys

wanted to produce plastic teddy bears

thought that producing plastic bricks could become a thriving (=good) business

liked building Lego houses from bricks in the beginning

it took a long time to build them, because they weren`t sticky enough

the glue they sold to stick them together wasn`t very good

the parts didn`t stick, so the Lego constructions easily fell apart

was forced to shut down the wooden toy business because of the fire

decided to stop producing wooden toys after the fire

didn`t resume the wooden toy business until after the Lego sales grew large enough

had always wanted to create an amusement park built from Lego bricks

originally wanted to have an exhibition room for his Lego models

came up the idea of Legoland when the modeling room became too crowded