Word: konzern
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Skyrockets and Suicide. Alfred's son Fritz was turnip-shaped and unprepossessing. But guiding the Konzern from 1887 to 1902, he built Krupp into a world industrial power that sold arms to countries from Chile to China and reaped rewards in ducats, guilders, guldens, livres, maravedis, pounds, schillings and rubles. The unofficial motto of the firm became Wenn Deutschland bluht, bluht Krupp (When Germany flourishes, Krupp flourishes...
...king-consort, Gustav von Bohlen und Hal-bach. Hand-picked by the Kaiser to marry the munitions business, he was also granted the right to use the Krupp name and to pass it along, though only for one generation and only to his eldest son. He ran the Konzern until 1943, outdoing the Krupps in ruthless efficiency. Gustav's only diversion seems to have been reading timetables for typographical errors. He allocated precisely 60 minutes a week to playing with his children-for his day was devoted to building the world's first and biggest fleet...
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