Word: cannoneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brother Adolph, left Bidestroff in the then Germna territory of the Saar and came to France in 1836. More particularly Brothers Eugene and Adolph came to Le Crcesot (literally "The Hollow" or "The Crucible") where to the south of the Burgundy wine district a small foundry had been making cannon from the days of Louis XVI. With perfect impartiality it had supplied first the monarchy, then the republic, and then Napoleon's Empire with its products, bought the foundry (La Societe Generale des Hauts Feurneaux) for 2,500,000 francs--and were then forced to wait for almost twenty years...
...able to watch the sweep of events that led to the France-Prussian War. Alfred Krupp saw it coming, too. He like Schneider, was capable of an internationalism far above the confines of narrow patriotism and was anxious to equip Napoleon Ill's armies with his own cannon a suggestion not entirely without its legic or, even, its sportsmanship, for Krupp had borrowed in Paris (from the same banking house of Setlliere as had set Engene Schneider up in business) and the money with which he made the guns that late, humbled France at Mets and Scdan...
Best known armament name in all the world is perhaps the name of Krupp. The Krupp who despite early discouragements at the hands of his own government, built up the gigantic works at Essen and made his name a synonym for cannon was Alfred--a strange figure who wore wooden sabots when he visited his factory, opened his window once a month, had a bathtub in his parlor, assembled his intimates in his own devising, and carried a steel walking stick. Alfred Krupp began as a humble petitioner of governments, coming hat in hand to ministers, kings, and emperors...
Bethlehem's products (you need only turn to Standard Statistics or Bethlehem's own most recent annual report) you will find armor plate, projectiles, gun and shell forgings, battleships, battle cruisers, destroyers, submarines and airplane carriers all listed as products of Bethlehem's plants. The site at Bethlehem where cannon and armour plate are made is separate from the rest of the plant. No outsiders are allowed, and it may be that Mr. Schwab has never been able to evade the vigilance of his watchmen. But if he could once get inside he would see a triumph of inventiveness...
...Perry's committee swung into action. A fighter who preferred defeat to compromise, he wished his fellow Virginian ousted. He got the committee to vote (43-to-28) to retire Bishop Cannon for "ill health" - only grounds permissible under church discipline. But the conference, after two hours of debate in which the "Prohibishop" was pictured as a martyr to the machinations of the Wet Press and the Roman Catholic Church or as a man ''infirm" because of his "love of money and love of power," voted its confidence...