Word: hugo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first night, Hugo Hoffmansthal's Welt Theatre Allegorical Pageant Play was given. "One of Reinhardt's greatest triumphs . . .'' representatives of the press dutifully wired to their papers...
...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...
According to a Berlin financial agency, the Stinnes firm, founded by the late Herr Hugo Stinnes, has disposed of eleven of its holdings: Three banks, two iron works, the Heinrich August Schulte Aktiengesellschaft (joint stock company), an oil company, a real estate company and several hotel...
Asked if they would ever again attempt flying to the Pole in heavier-than-air machines, Amundsen and Ellsworth said: "No." Asked if they were interested in the project of Herr Hugo Eckener of trying for the Pole in a super-zeppelin, said they: "Yes, in-deed!" Said Ellsworth, whose recent trip was his first polar experience: "I have only just begun . . . Any project for a polar flight by dirigible should plan its route for a flight clear across the Pole, terminating in Japan...
...found themselves saddled with colossal industries, heavy debts-and no money. As a result, they have been forced to resort to the banks to keep going, and now on the bank's own terms for accommodation. The result is that the colossal concentration of industries once held in Hugo Stinnes' hands is now pasing to the large Berlin banks...