Word: gel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today the factories of Essen-and dozens of other Krupp plants throughout Germany-are glowing with activity. Amid the magnificent trappings of the Villa Hügel, his 200-room ancestral mansion above the valley of the Ruhr, Alfried Krupp regally receives visiting heads of state such as King Paul of Greece, Brazil's President Kubitschek, Cabinet ministers and businessmen, extends his hospitality to men who once vowed to destroy him. In a gesture that symbolizes the rehabilitation of the Krupp empire and name, the U.S., which has long refused to admit convicted war criminals, last fortnight granted Alfried...
...high-quality steel plates in Germany came to be called Krupp-Panzer. Four years after his death in 1902. Friedrich Alfred's daughter and only child. Bertha, married a Prussian counselor to the Vatican named Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach.* Before he left Villa Hügel on the day after the wedding, Kaiser Wilhelm II issued an imperial edict giving Gustav and any male descendants who inherited the Krupp properties the right to use the Krupp name...
Alfried was ten when he first went through a Krupp steel plant. At 17 he graduated with high grades from the nearby Bredeney Realgymnasium, a month later started work as an apprentice at the Krupp works in Essen. He had to leave Villa Hügel on his motor bike at 6 a.m. to get to the shop in time, once had his name put up on the plant's "lazy list" for being late. After his father decided that he should study steelmaking, he was shipped off to the Munich Polytechnikum -his first departure from home-later finished...
Alfried Krupp's private life is far removed from the pomp and circumstance of his position. A lonely man who has few personal friends, does not attend any church, he long ago moved out of Villa Hügel now lives alone in his 15-room house near by. His first marriage to once-divorced Anneliese Bahr, daughter of a prominent manufacturer, ended after four years in 1941, when his father, who had opposed the marriage, threatened to disinherit him. The son by the marriage, Arndt, 19, is studying in Switzerland, is expected to succeed his father as head...
...might have been less sure if asked to identify the entire menu of that 1939 dinner. Dishes left out: Rouennais à la gelée Reine Elizabeth, Garniture Buzancy, Mignonnette d'Agneau Royale, Pommes nouvelles rissolées au beurre, Poussin Mercy-le-Haut, Salade Elysée, Asperges vertes, Bombe l'Entente Cordiale, Cassolette Bassillac. Wines left out: Sherry 1865, Piesporter Goldtröpfchen 1924, Deidesheimer Kieselberg 1921, Perrier-Jouët 1919, Château Haut-Brion 1904, Royal Tawny Port, Brandy...