Word: kaiser
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West of Calcutta, where the Tata plan and the three government steel mills an racing to completion, the Tata plant is the one most nearly finished. Kaiser Engineers Division was hired by Tata to handle construction and engineering (since Jamsetj Tata's time the company has traditionally looked to the U.S. for technicians), assembled a work force of 14,000 Indians who put in 18 or more hours a day. The new section will pour steel next summer...
Aluminum Pleasure Dome. The first aluminum dome auditorium in the U.S. was erected by Kaiser Aluminum Co. at Virginia Beach, Va. for a municipally owned convention center to seat 2,200. Made of 575 diamond-shaped aluminum panels bolted and sealed together, the stressed-skin aluminum shell is 145 ft. in diameter, 49½ ft. high. The auditorium's cost...
...soot of the Ruhrgebiet, overlooking his busy factories, he built Villa Hiigel, a monstrous, boxlike pile made of stone and steel because Alfred feared fire. There he entertained the royalty and dignitaries who streamed to Essen to pay tribute to his genius. When he died in 1887, the Kaiser sent a special deputy, and messages of condolence poured in from all over the world...
...Germany came to be called Krupp-Panzer. Four years after his death in 1902. Friedrich Alfred's daughter and only child. Bertha, married a Prussian counselor to the Vatican named Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach.* Before he left Villa Hügel on the day after the wedding, Kaiser Wilhelm II issued an imperial edict giving Gustav and any male descendants who inherited the Krupp properties the right to use the Krupp name...
Orderly & Properly. There was nothing in Alfried Krupp's sheltered life to prepare him for this ordeal. The first of Gustav's and Bertha's eight children, he grew up in an atmosphere suggestive of Novelist Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks. Kaiser Wilhelm II was his godfather. Young Alfried's world centered around Villa Hugel, which was not only a well-regulated German household to its inhabitants but the focus of social life for the Ruhr. The children saw little of their parents or other children, spent most of their time in the care of teachers...