Word: gesellschafts
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...Mountain of Mahogany." The bedside telephone in Tiefenbrunn is linked by direct wire with a huge grey stone building on Unter den Linden in which tourists used to cash their letters of credit, dazzled by the splendiferous luxury of Germany's great Disconto Gesellschaft. The Government bought the building last year "as is" and it remained empty until last month. When the Ministry of Economics then moved in Dr. Schmitt exclaimed, "That mountain of mahogany is no desk for me! I want something smaller, with a big drawer for cigars...
...attended his efforts. But a larger audience, more excited, spread all over the world, listened to Tristan und Isolde through loudspeakers. It was a tradition-breaking radio broadcast: first one to come from Bayreuth. To insure its excellence, all other broadcasting in Germany had been hushed. The Reichs Rundfunk Gesellschaft sent it out to all of Europe on a short wave; British Broadcasting Co. relayed the third act to National Broadcasting Co. for its U.S. hookup...
...Financière de transports et d'enterprises industrielles), which is second in size only to Bond & Share, operates throughout Europe and in South America. Sofina is a vast holding company controlled by the Dannie Heineman interests of Belgium, and also linked with the potent Gesfurel (Gesellschaft für Elektrizität), likewise in a competitive position with the new company...
...Curtius had two bright ideas about how to deal with Dr. Schacht. First he proceeded to ignore him, assured the Allies that if the Reichsbank would not subscribe Germany's share of the B. I. S. capital, then the Prussian State Bank ("Preussische Staatsbank") and the Reichs-Kredit-Gesellschaft would. Secondly he ordered his legal experts to search through the traveling library of documents which all diplomatic delegations carry and find a way to oust the obstreperous Reichsbank President, if necessary. A good lawyer enjoys nothing so much as trying to find out how to do the legally impossible...
Investors' enthusiasm for Dedi was not shared by German bank clerks. The great Deutsche Bank operates branch offices in 174 cities, has 14,000 employes on its payroll. There are some 50 branches of the Disconto Gesellschaft, a personnel of 7,000. With the announcement of the new merger came news that nearly half of these branch offices would be closed, in the interest of economy, some 2,000 employes of the two banks discharged. Dedibank was more thoughtful of its bank directors. The complete boards of both of the merging banks will sit at the meetings of Dedi...