Word: interessen
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...given it in executive session last May. Mr. Lee, by whom John D. Rockefeller was metamorphosed from a corporate monster into a benevolent old philanthropist, told the committee that he had for years been public relations counsel at $3,000 a year for the U. S. affiliate of Interessen Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie, the great German dye trust. Last year, when Hitler came into power, the home office of I. G. Farbenindustrie retained Mr. Lee at $25,000 per year, "because they were very much concerned about the beginning of the boycott and wanted to know what could be done and what...
...above effect, last week, were exaggerations, but not essentially untrue. The key hyperbole was to describe as "one of the handsomest private yachts in the world" the prosaic German steamer Lutzow. Factually speaking the Lutzow had been chartered by German chemical interests allied with the famed "I. G."-Interessen Gemeinschaft Farbenindmtrie Aktiengesellschaft-for the purpose of holding a general nitrate pow wow and technical discussion of nitrate problems among the world's best chemical minds...
...whose only thought is the commission they want. . . ?" He instanced this financiering as an example of how U. S. foreign loans strengthen the arms of those he contends are ready to strike the U. S.: "It is reported throughout the European press that the German cartel, the I. G. (Interessen Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie), has, through exchange of stock, merged with the Norwegian Hydro-Electric Co. and that the latter is contemplating a great expansion of its operations for fixation of nitrogen through a loan of $20,000,000 which it expects to get through one of the great American banking organizations...
Membership. The companies that will comprise the combination are: "Ig," which is the trade symbol of the famed Interessen Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie-the largest corporation in Germany and that country's dye trust...
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