Word: dusseldorf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago, IBM-Germany was searching for a place to set up its new headquarters. Says Assistant General Manager Manfred Wahl: "We looked at Dusseldorf in the Ruhr and at Frankfurt, but we chose Stuttgart. Our managers prefer to stay here." That kind of intangible is often enough to tip the balance in Baden-Württemberg's favor. It makes a difference to be able to look out an office window and see green hills topped by castles instead of clouds of soot...
...transform staid bank clerks into money salesmen"-a formula that works at home as well as abroad. One of the Dresdner's mutual funds, Concentra, has grown into the country's second largest (assets: $226 million). From its coequal headquarters in the cities of Frankfurt, Dusseldorf and Hamburg, the bank has opened 650 branches across West Germany, adds new ones at the rate of 70 a year. Last year the effort to woo deposits proved so successful that the Dresdner's total funds increased by 20%. That $650 million growth was the largest of any bank...
...North Carolina the forces burned and suffocated him at the same time like a poisonous gas. He was in Dusseldorf after the war when you could stand at the train station and look ten miles in any direction and in Africa to see tribalism, nationalism, them, us slither into the fetid soil. Then his career in music was wrecked, and he watched that too, proud of his talent, his mission to music but still shy and afraid to stand too close to a white...
...wealthy Baltimore brokerage family, Woodville showed his precocious talent at the tender age of eleven in a small but accomplished watercolor portraying a dying general. Properly educated, he studied anatomy at medical school for a year, then set off to train in Germany when he was 20. There, in Dusseldorf, he learned the romantic lighting and theatrical staging then in vogue, techniques that worked as well on U.S. local color as on Rhine landscapes. Though he lived abroad for most of the brief ten years before he died at 30, his fondest subjects remained the Eastern Shore oyster houses, Chesapeake...
...supervisory board. To succeed him as Sprecher des Vorstandes, or speaker for its ten-man executive board, the Frankfurt-based bank picked not one but two associates: Karl Klasen, 58, head of its Hamburg office, and Franz Heinrich Ulrich, 56, who will also continue to manage its Dusseldorf division. Though withdrawing from active banking, Abs remains one of his country's most powerful businessmen. A director of 29 large companies, he retains the chairmanship of 15, including Daimler-Benz, Lufthansa and the Deutsche Bundesbahn, the state-owned railway...