Word: creusot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...company has been under the Schneiders since 1836, when brothers Eugene and Adolphe Schneider started making locomotives and munitions south of the Burgundy wine district at Le Creusot. Under Liliane's elegant and cynical father-in-law, the late Charles Prosper Eugene Schneider, the company shipped arms to most of the world's warring nations. It bought iron mines, foundries and shipyards, and won control of more than 200 arms plants outside France, including Czechoslovakia's Skoda, which it sold to Czech interests just before the Nazis occupied all Czechoslovakia. The French government nationalized Schneider...
...with four hours' work in the field. Li seemed so immature that his fellow students called him tsao-pao (bundle of straw). He had no particular distaste for work-he was just not very good at it. After Montargis, he briefly held jobs at the Renault and Schneider-Creusot factories...