Word: aeg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soared since the recent currency liberalization made it easier to repatriate profits in dollars. Heavy U.S. buying in May provided the punch that lifted such stocks as the Anglo-Dutch Unilever from $143 to $153, The Netherlands' Philips' Lamps from $158 to $176, West Germany's AEG (electrical equipment) from $83 to $91. and Bayer (chemicals) from $93 to $105. One reason for particular U.S. interest in Germany: if a foreign investor holds his West German stock for more than three months, he pays no taxes, thus can use his full long-term profits for further investment...
...from the more efficient nationalized factories, among them Magdeburg's Ernst Thalmann Heavy Machine Works, which the East Germans pieced together with infinite patience from scavenged old machinery and parts imported and smuggled from the West. In electronics, former subsidiaries of large West Germany corporations, notably Siemens and AEG, have caught up by copying West German products. Some even improve on Western designs...