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...Karl." Last week as he stood in the enormous shadow of the Bremen, the General Director must have felt as proud as a flea that had whelped a whale. Too modest and certainly too wise to boast, STIMMING compressed his exultation into three sentences that spoke volumes, "Mein herren" he said in his always calm low voice to correspondents. "Gentlemen, every one likes to talk in periods of decades -of ten years. It is always a case of how things were ten years ago. But I should like to remind you that only eight years ago, thanks to the terms...
...referred to as "heart of the automobile," was considered its most important organ. That its inventor was a German did not in those days detract from his genius. Herr-Inventor Robert Bosch found a great demand for his product in the U. S. In 1906 he sent two compatriots, Herren Otto Heins and Gustave Klein, to New York to incorporate a U. S. subsidiary. When U. S. efficiency developed the self-starter and brilliant ampere-eating headlights, battery ignition supplanted the magneto in passenger cars. Magneto-maker Bosch therefore turned to trucks, racing cars, motor boats, airplanes, continued old prosperity...
...TIME, April 1), only Vonly, the astute observer, suspected the object of their visit. And when, last week, the U. S. affiliate, with a distinguished German-American directorate, announced a $30,000,000 bond issue, only Writer Farrell seemed to detect a significance, let alone a menace, in what Herren Bosch & Düysberg had accomplished. He, anti-Teutonic, antiSemitic, shrilled at U. S. financiers for associating with the "notorious" German Dye Trust, harked back to War days in which German chemists had unkindly embarrassed the U. S. dye industry through failure to publish their dye patents and processes, and closed...
...initial bond issue in something less than one hour and began its corporate existence under the most pleasing auspices. Representing a combination of I. G. Dyes, Standard Oil of New Jersey, National City Bank, International Acceptance and Ford Motors, the American I. G. Chemical Corp. included on its directorate Herren Doktoren Bosch, Schmitz and Greif of I. G. Dyes, President Walter Teagle of Standard Oil, Chairman Mitchell and Warburg of the two Manhattan banking houses, and President Edsel Ford of Ford. What proportion of the new company's stock will be held, respectively, by its U. S. and German interests...
...German Empire. . . . He lives in a modest little house in Berlin-the same house that was occupied by his parents. He dresses with almost studied simplicity. . . . August Thyssen, next to Stinnes, is the greatest business man in Germany." The next in order of greatness, he said, are Herren Carl Friedrich Siemens, head of the electrical industry, and Felix Deutsch, brother-in-law of Otto H. Kahn. These four men, said Dr. Stein, form the "Big Four in German Industry...