Word: halbach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Murdochville, Kruppville" warned another, in an obvious attempt to keep the United Steelworkers' strike at the Murdochville works of the Gaspe Copper Mines Ltd. in the public eye. In one of the Ritz-Carlton's handsomely appointed suites, German Industrialist Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 50 (TIME, Aug. 12), shrugged off the demonstration: "In Germany we have good relations with trade unions." Then newsmen gathered for a press conference got the news most of Canada has been waiting for: Krupp and four other German steelmakers have joined forces with a group of Canadian...
Next day, with Cyrus Eaton Jr. acting as host and guide, Krupp and his party boarded an airplane for the first leg of a 1,000-mile flight to Ungava Bay. But when the plane landed at Schefferville. Krupp learned that his mother, Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 71, had died in Essen. He hurried to New York to catch an airliner home to Germany, while Eaton and the rest of the Krupp party continued the flight to Ungava...
Died. Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 71, granddaughter of Munitions King Alfred ("Alfred the Great") Krupp, and herself fourth-generation ruler of the Krupp empire, mother of the current (since 1943) Steel Kingpin Alfried Krupp (TIME, Aug. 19), who gave her name to the famed Big Bertha, the 42-centimeter mortar that smashed World War I forts and cleared the way for the German advance into Belgium and France; of a heart ailment; in Essen, Germany...
...usual solitary breakfast of coffee and a single egg, read newspapers and personal mail as he ate. Though his normally taciturn air and faithfulness to morning routine gave little hint of it, the day was an important one in the life of Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, ruler and sole owner of Germany's $1 billion Krupp industrial empire. On Alfried Krupp's soth birthday, his worldwide empire was ready to do him honor...
...huge steel foundry at Rheinhausen was built, and all 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...