Word: bohlen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual solitary breakfast of coffee and a single egg, read newspapers and personal mail as he ate. Though his normally taciturn air and faithfulness to morning routine gave little hint of it, the day was an important one in the life of Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, ruler and sole owner of Germany's $1 billion Krupp industrial empire. On Alfried Krupp's soth birthday, his worldwide empire was ready to do him honor...
...that will soon house 200 busy scientists, discovering new worlds for Firma Fried. Krupp to conquer. Gathered around him in the center's library, the directors of every Krupp branch and subsidiary throughout Germany raised their glasses and drank a toast in 1955 Moselle to Alfried Krupp von Bohlen's first half century-and the bright future ahead...
...huge steel foundry at Rheinhausen was built, and all high-quality steel plates in Germany came to be called Krupp-Panzer. Four years after his death in 1902. Friedrich Alfred's daughter and only child. Bertha, married a Prussian counselor to the Vatican named Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach.* Before he left Villa Hügel on the day after the wedding, Kaiser Wilhelm II issued an imperial edict giving Gustav and any male descendants who inherited the Krupp properties the right to use the Krupp name...
...seven months. By the time Hitler came to power in 1933, the firm had built itself up again by producing a steady flow of peacetime goods. It had also violated the Versailles Treaty by secretly carrying on armaments research, producing small quantities of tanks, guns, even submarines. Gustav von Bohlen early became a backer of Adolph Hitler, soon began producing a flood of arms at Hitler's behest, joined the Nazi Party in 1939. During World War II Krupp once more became Germany's chief source of armament, employing more than 160.000 workers. To the growing list...
...Philippines, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Russia Charles ("Chip") Bohlen presented his credentials to President Carlos P. Garcia at Malacanan Palace, later chatted informally over cigarettes while the first rain after a long dry spell-an omen for the new ambassador's success-began to fall on Manila...