Word: disconto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggestions, means would be found to make them do so, made the German film industry virtually a Government monopoly. Into control of UFA, which makes about 30 of Germany's annual output of 200 feature films, went a Government-backed group headed ostensibly by the Deutsche Bank und Disconto-Gesellschaft. Out went Dr. Alfred Hugenberg, first minister of national economy in the Hitler regime, who has served as a member of the board of UFA since 1927. Once run largely by Jews, like the U. S. cinema, the German cinema industry has waned rapidly since 1933, lately failed...
...Mountain of Mahogany." The bedside telephone in Tiefenbrunn is linked by direct wire with a huge grey stone building on Unter den Linden in which tourists used to cash their letters of credit, dazzled by the splendiferous luxury of Germany's great Disconto Gesellschaft. The Government bought the building last year "as is" and it remained empty until last month. When the Ministry of Economics then moved in Dr. Schmitt exclaimed, "That mountain of mahogany is no desk for me! I want something smaller, with a big drawer for cigars...
...Deutsche-Disconto, Berlin...