Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unobtrusively, Junior Stinnes left the prison, went to Berlin's smartest Esplanade Hotel (owned by the Hugo Stinnes Corp.), journeyed thence to his home at Mulheim in the Ruhr valley. His trial for attempt to defraud the German Government (TIME, Sept. 24) will probably not take place until next year...
Died. Capt. Kurt Grahn, 60, of the North German Lloyd liner Stuttgart; of heart disease; on the bridge of his ship, as it backed out of its Hoboken dock en route for England...
Matchmaker Kreuger speaks fluently Swedish, English, French, German. He has more than a smattering of Russian and Finnish. But he would have to speak at least 50 languages and dialects if he were to conduct personally all the affairs of the International Match Co. Within the last three years, Matchmaker Kreuger has concluded shrewd deals in Poland, Peru, Greece, Norway, Germany, France, Jugoslavia, Japan, Ecuador, Esthonia. International Match Co. controls 75% of U. S. production, through the wholly owned Vulcan Match Co., and through the "biggest" Diamond Match Co. This company has a contract with the Swedish monopoly...
...Klein's satisfaction was natural. Two years ago his bureau had stirred the U. S. Department of Justice to bring an anti-trust suit against 27 Dutch, British, Japanese, German, French, Swiss and U. S. firms who were restraining the quinine trade...
There exist other foreign monopolies of natural products which hamper where they do not constrain U. S. business?British rubber, French-German potash, Chilean nitrate and iodine, Japanese camphor, Brazilian coffee...