Word: coenraad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Flying Squads. A.K.U. was founded as a rayon company in 1911 by a young Dutch chemist named Jacques Coenraad Hartogs, who had learned the business while working for Courtaulds in England. Hartogs' company, which became publicly owned in 1923, prospered until World War II, which all but destroyed it. At war's end, 40% of A.K.U.'s Dutch plant lay in ruins, five of its factories in Eastern Europe had been taken over by the Communists and two of its U.S. affiliates had been seized because of partial German ownership. (A.K.U. succeeded, however, in hanging onto...
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