Word: germanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chimneys, that had once been Krupp's throbbing heart and muscle. Across Germany, Krupp's vast holdings were rapidly being dismantled and shipped off by the Allies, determined to stamp out "the merchants of death" who in two world wars supplied the cannon used by the long German columns to blast their way across Europe...
Gardens & Statues. Krupp's amazing comeback symbolizes the thrust, determination and vigor that have made West Germany one of the most prosperous nations in Europe, industrially the world's fourth most powerful. The energy and ingenuity of German industry has more than doubled the country's industrial production since 1950. Last year Germany manufactured more than 1,000,000 trucks and autos, became the world's second largest automaker. Steel output reached 2,000,000 tons a month for the first time, exceeding that of Hitler's Reich in 1938 and pushing Germany into first...
...lowest, and its workers' wages are up 60% over 1950 levels, 40% over 1953. Last year workers bought 157,000 new cars (v. 98,400 in 1955), plus 127,000 scooters and motorcycles. Food stores are jammed with goods; meat consumption is up 30% over 1950. This summer German tourists are traveling around Europe in record numbers, flashing hard currency with an abandon once reserved for Americans...
...backed credits for exports, trimmed away many of the restrictions that plague business in other European countries. Today, 90% of all the goods flowing into West Germany from the dollar area have no import quotas v. 67% three years ago. Although there are some limits on foreign investment by German businessmen, they are so high as to be almost meaningless...
...built up his firm by producing steel rails and the first seamless steel train tires for the railroads that were pushing across Europe and the American West. Krupp also turned out steel cannon, but for many years had little success in selling them until German militarists finally awoke to the fact that the new cannon were easier to load and more accurate and durable than the traditional bronze models. With Krupp cannon, Prussia defeated Austria in 1866 and France in 1871. By 1887 Krupp had sold 24,567 big guns to 21 nations. Alfred Krupp became known in Essen...