Word: frankforter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Albert Bacon Fall made his first great expedition in the world when, aged 10, he accompanied his parents from Frankfort, Ky., his birthplace (1861), to Nashville, Tenn...
Fritz von Opel, youthful and imaginative automobile maker of Frankfort, Germany, after two unsuccessful attempts rose 250 feet in the air, flew six miles to an airplane given momentum not by a motor but by rockets. It was the first rocket-plane flight. Just before he started he had explained: "Before one attempts to fly to the moon, he must jump over the first milestone...
...Farbenindustrie last week strengthened its international position by adding the Swiss chemical industry to the European chemical cartel. For, though I. G. Dyes is not the entire German chemical industry, it does occupy a dominant position in its field, and growth of the cartel is reflected in prosperity at Frankfort. Prominence of Germany in the international chemical field is shown by the fact that cartel representatives, meeting in Paris, last week allotted 74% of the export trade to Germany, 17% to France and 8% to Switzerland. Sole check to cartel plans was the failure to bring Britain's chemical...
...Teagle of Standard Oil, Chairman Mitchell and Warburg of the two Manhattan banking houses, and President Edsel Ford of Ford. What proportion of the new company's stock will be held, respectively, by its U. S. and German interests is not stated. Control, however, was assumed to rest at Frankfort on the Main...
Products of the new company can be described only in many pages of chemical formulae. Its Frankfort parent has a long list of products ? a list roughly comparable to that of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc. Chief among these products...