Word: essen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paternalistic policy of never laying off a "Kruppianer" and never closing down a branch. He reduced the number of divisions from 23 to 14, pared the work force from 90,400 to 79,500, and sold off holdings in low-yield properties, including a hotel and department store in Essen, the Krupps' soot-filled home city. The Krupp truck plant, which lost $7,500,000 in its last year of operation, was closed. Coal production, long a loser, was reduced-and the last wholly-owned Krupp mine was sold off last year...
From Zacher's organ at the Folkwang Academy in Essen come some of the most adventurous and innovative sounds heard in a time beset by strange noises. Playing music by such avant-garde composers as Mauricio Kagel, Georgy Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen, Ernst Krenek and, naturally, John Cage, Zacher treats the organ as though it were a giant musical synthesizer, capable of taking sound back to its primeval sources and building music anew. That is exactly how Zacher feels about...
...then revolutionary Max Reger, Zacher's family tree has been heavy with organists. His reputation as both an avant-garde and a classical player was established during twelve years as chief organist at red brick Wellingsbütte Church near Hamburg. He moved to his new and prestigious Essen post only two months ago. In recent years he has performed at nearly every one of Europe's major contemporary-music festivals, cut seven records and composed several organ works...
Those suspicions were satirized last week by Punch. "Do we, the heirs of Nelson and Wellington, really want obedient, heel-clicking Teutonic plumbers from Essen to come here and louse up centuries of history with their ridiculous passion for efficiency?" the magazine demanded. "Do we want evil-smelling bus drivers from Lyons charging like madmen down the wrong side of Kensington High Street? Should we allow the Italians to turn us all into neurotic, vino-swigging worshippers of saints none of us has ever heard of? What is at stake is THE BRITISH WAY OF LIFE...
...Brandt began bidding for closer political ties with Communist Eastern Europe, West German Economics Minister Karl Schiller was pursuing a business Ostpolitik. Unlike Brandt's diplomacy, which is still in the negotiating stage, it has already produced a solid success. Last week in the Krupp company town of Essen, Schiller and Soviet Foreign Trade Minister Nikolai Patolichev toasted each other with Kupferberg Furst Bismarck champagne after signing what may be the biggest trade deal ever between the U.S.S.R. and a Western nation...