Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...emigrated to the U.S. in 1956, is now the owner of a paint contracting firm and a U.S. citizen...
...Alfried Krupp such a humiliation was intolerable. In the years since the firm began as an Essen foundry in 1811, the House of Krupp had been courted by Bismarck, the Kaisers and Hitler. Kaiser Wilhelm I called it a "national institution." Wilhelm II was Alfried's godfather. And at Alfried's birth, his father Gustav wrote to his directors: "May he grow up in the Krupp works, and through practical work acquire the fundamentals he will require to take over the responsibility-laden duties...
...Allied victory Alfried took the rap for Gustav, by then mentally incompetent, and was sentenced at Niirnberg to twelve years for using slave labor and "plundering occupied territory." Later, the U.S. acknowledged the injustice of the Niirnberg sentence, released Krupp and allowed him to take control of his firm once again...
...city officials' confidence has a firm financial basis. Five oil companies -Shell, Esso, Gulf, British Petroleum and Chevron-have zealously backed their every scheme. In response to the channel deepening, four have ordered no fewer than 82 tankers of the 175,000 to 225,000-ton class. And on land, they have invested more than $1 billion in facilities, about a third of it in chemical works and the balance...
...Beardsley was born in Brighton. His father was a blade who soon squandered a small inheritance; his mother, Ellen Pitt, a Brighton belle, was so slender that she was known locally as "the bottomless Pitt." For a while, young Beardsley was employed as an inept clerk in an insurance firm run by a relative, who was nearly as happy as Aubrey when the boy deserted business for art. But that career was nearly wrecked by Oscar Wilde as a consequence of Wilde's own notorious homosexual liaison with Lord Alfred Douglas. Though Beardsley's name was not even...