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...Frank Dobie, who put the honor and the data together, is as Texan as the steers he celebrates. An anti-industrialist and individualist, he once went to jail rather than pay a $2 fine for violation of what he considered an unreasonable parking regulation. He likes to be called Pancho (or even Don Pancho), sports a white Stetson and a buckskin watch fob. His father and grandfather before him were vaqueros of the south Texas brush country; in that country Dobie was born, 52 years ago. He spent his first 15 years in a ranch boy's intimacy with...
Enjoying the heady half-mile-high air were young sprigs on leave from Panzer and other divisions, industrialist families glad to get out of their much-bombed home towns, few Nazi bigwigs. Official Germany had too much on its mind to go skiing...
Economic schoolboys love to argue over who is the world's most powerful industrialist. Last week the argument could almost be regarded as settled. The winner: beer-bellied, red-faced, medal-breasted Hermann Göring...
...power-in-general rather than any organic industrial shape, the Göring trust next spread into oil fields, commercia houses, shipping companies. In 1938 the capital jumped to $160,000,000. The next year Fritz Thyssen abdicated. Under a decree which permits the State to seize "communistic property," Industrialist Göring took over Thyssen's holdings in the Vereinigte Stahlwerke, the anything-but-communistic mills in Mullheim (largest in Germany...
Thus Göring cannot be called the world's richest man. But he is certainly Europe's, probably the world's, most potent industrialist. Last month the Hermann Göring Works was reorganized under three sub-holding companies: one for mines and ore refining, one for arms and machine production, one for shipping and inland waterways. But the full range of its products (among them: synthetic oil, guns, turbines, textiles, typewriters, tanks, ships) is a Nazi secret...