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...descendants of Georg von Giesche have operated in Upper Silesia, gathering into their Bergwerke Georg von Giesche Gesellschaft Erben (Estate) zinc mines (the largest in Europe), bituminous coal fields (present production 3,500,000 tons yearly), lead mines, concentrating plants, smelting works, melting furnaces, rolling mills, agricultural lands, 20,000 employes. The ancestor in 1704 willed that no other than his lineal descendants might own stock in his Estate. But War and aftermath have impoverished these descendants. They had to appeal to the Anaconda Copper Co. and to William Averell Harriman (who has spent much time in Europe since...
...bellowed the phone number of his apartment on Unter den Linden through the roar of the train. His wife answered, intelligibly, if necessarily at the top of her lungs; and the details of next morning's breakfast were gutturally decided upon. The Berliner hung up, paid the Eisenbahn Gesellschaft (railroad company) 5 gold marks ($1.20), and considered himself lucky to have been one of the first individuals to talk over the new commercial train-to-station, intertrain and station-to-train German telephone...
...firm of Dillon, Read & Co. and the British firm of J. H. Schroder & Co. purchased for some $4,000,000 a large interest in the Deutsche Luxemburgische Gesellschaft, one of the largest industrial concerns which the late Herr Hugo Stinnes founded and one which, with the Gelsenkirchen, Bochumerverein and Siemens concerns-the so-called Rhine-Elbe Union-controls the output of German coal, coke, iron, steel...
...group of bankers met in the Reichsbank building in Berlin. After some discussion, they decided to lend some $10,000,000 to the Stinnes Gesellschaft (Company...
...remarkable contributions to the world's knowledge of astronomical subjects Professor Bailey has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the National Academy of Science, the Geographical Society of Lima, Peru, the Astronomische Gesellschaft, and an associate of the Royal Astronomical Society of London. These honors have been showered on him by the most prominent societies in nearly every important country in Europe and South America in recognition of his unparalleled services not only to the United States but to other countries as well...