Word: johannisberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Korn became a big businessman. He installed a battery of modern machines in his middle-sized wine cellar in Johannisberg, tapped a water main to get enough water, boosted production higher and higher. Bigness finally proved his undoing. At one point, he forgot to mix in exactly the right amount of potash to match the area's good wines, and a suspicious controller caught the mistake, also discovered Korn's heavy purchases from the local chemical dealer. He called the police...