Word: hermann
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...profits to work, he dropped $250,000 in an ill-starred try at moviemaking. "I didn't even get to meet a beautiful movie star,'' he recalls ruefully. He also branched into banking, partly to finance a chocolate stockpile for Oetker-packaged puddings, took over Hermann Lampe, a private bank, and Frankfurt's Braubank. The latter's big holdings in beer companies put Oetker in the front rank of West German brewers...
...second largest steelmaker (after Krupp), which was searching for a bright young man to preside over its drive for diversification. Scheduled to take over as chief executive of Mannesmann Oct. 1, genial Herr Doktor Overbeck is currently studying the company's operations under the tutelage of retiring Chairman Hermann Winkhaus, 65, this week will fly off to Canada to inspect Mannesmann's steel plants there...
...what they lack in privilege, the Humanists make up in prestige: the ranks of the American Humanist Association are heavy with scientists and intellectuals, and the international union boasts such influential leaders as British Biologist Julian Huxley and two Nobel prizewinners, British Agriculturist Lord Boyd Orr and U.S. Geneticist Hermann Muller...
...Siemens family man has been the chief ever since the company was started in 1847 in a small Berlin workshop by Werner Siemens and Johann Halske. Werner Siemens developed the world's first electric dynamo−and the company was on the high line. Another Von Siemens−Hermann, a grandson of Founder Werne−patched the company together after World War II had left it in smoldering ruins. He gathered the remnants of Siemens' skilled work force, gradually built new plants, and bought back Siemens' overseas properties that had been expropriated during...
...years since Swiss Psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach published a set of inkblots to be used for probing the personality, his name has become a household cliché for psychological testing. But when Rorschach died in 1922, at the age of 37, he had barely begun to extend the application of his test from mental patients to normal subjects, and he was still working with only ten cards. Those same ten cards are in use today...