Word: krupp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rhine Valley and the northern ports, British bombers blazed a path down the western rim of Germany, returning to key cities again & again. Freight yards and oil depots at Mannheim were bombed 16 times, oil refineries and an aircraft factory at Frankfort on the Main twelve times, the Krupp works in Essen 16 times. At Cologne and Soest, railways, munitions works, chemical plants were attacked 29 times. Even heavier were the raids on the ports of Bremen, Wilhelmshaven, Kiel and Hamburg. Wherever there were railroad junctions, oil stores, munitions works, docks, factories, the British pilots had appeared, spattering a network...
...Coal for smelting is available in Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul. The Brazilian Government had dreamed of developing its steel industry independently, but, finding the financial burden too great, it offered the concession to the highest foreign bidder. Interest lagged except in iron-hungry Germany, where the Krupp combine, according to the Brazilians, tried hard to get the monopoly. Hitler's commercial agents, they said, had offered to transfer the entire Skoda Works from Czecho-Slovakia to Brazil. When World War II began to devour more steel than Europe could produce, Axel Wenner-Gren, Swedish steel baron...
...publicity device, the Bottlenecks investigation got off to a bad start. Talking carelessly to reporters, Arnold produced huge headlines, vague stories about defense-hindering control of U. S. patent users by the German firm of Krupp. He had designs on a number of industries in which foreign patent tie-ups were said to be restricting U. S. production, among them magnesium, whose chief producer, Dow Chemical Co., has built an independent U. S. magnesium industry (using sea water as ore) from its own smart research. Arnold also got off a phrase about "economic fifth columnists" which he later tried...
...also indicted (along with its subsidiary Carboloy Co.) for a 1928 patent deal with Krupp on tungsten car bide alloys. President L. Gerald Firth of Firth-Sterling Steel Co., one of Carboloy Co.'s three licensees, applauded...
...Essen, to the 70th birthday celebration of Dr. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, went Adolf Hitler himself, to congratulate the head of Germany's greatest munitions plant, award him a golden badge of honor...