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Word: commercia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overflowed in every direction: into coal fields in Upper Silesia, gravel pits, quarries, lignite mines east of the Elbe, lime deposits in Bavaria, refractory materials in Upper Palatinate. Aiming at power-in-general rather than any organic industrial shape, the Göring trust next spread into oil fields, commercia houses, shipping companies. In 1938 the capital jumped to $160,000,000. The next year Fritz Thyssen abdicated. Under a decree which permits the State to seize "communistic property," Industrialist Göring took over Thyssen's holdings in the Vereinigte Stahlwerke, the anything-but-communistic mills in Mullheim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World's Greatest Industrialist? | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

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