Word: direktor
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...time of his death, Dr. Stimming had accumulated 942,162 tons of ships, restored the pre-War service of one express liner and one cabin ship a week between New York and Germany, built the S. S. Columbus, Bremen and Europa, fastest liner afloat. Pudgy, shaven-polled, Herr Direktor Stimming was loved & feared by his employes. He traveled always across the Atlantic on ships of competing lines so that he might watch their methods. To rationalize German shipping, he arranged mergers of small lines, finally concluded a pooling agreement with the Hamburg-American Line...
...chief continental rival, North German Lloyd's Herr Direktor Karl Stimming, is also very short, very forceful, but is bald and has the tiniest possible mustache. †Equivalent to board chairman...
...precaution had been taken against such a conflagration. For months the great shipyard of Blohm & Voss at Hamburg, where the Bremen and Europa lay, had been guarded like a military fortress. No one-not even STIMMING himself-was allowed to enter without showing an elaborately documented pass. Certainly Herr Direktor Karl Stimming of the North German Lloyd-a man of such arresting reticence that he keeps even his first name out of the German Who's Who, and is known to most of his awed subordinates only as STIMMING-would not have decreed these iron precautions...
...flies, and he is always in a hurry, though his mannerisms and probably his thoughts are deliberate. A most annoying habit is to speak to subordinates in tones so low that only by straining can they hear. The Emperor Napoleon was at times similarly guilty. Indeed as Der Herr Direktor sits at his very big desk - autocratically directing a fleet of 174 vessels totaling 731,688 tons - he is not without a wholly German and quite paradoxical resemblance to the French "Little Corporal." Frugal and precise of tongue, his only recent public utterance was badgered out of him by reporters...
Impudent, a Communist mail carrier did not doff his cap one morning last week in the presence of the Herr Direktor of the Vienna Post Office. Irate, the Herr Direktor bellowed, gave this minion a thoroughgoing rebuke...