Word: krupp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down to his usual solitary breakfast of coffee and a single egg, read newspapers and personal mail as he ate. Though his normally taciturn air and faithfulness to morning routine gave little hint of it, the day was an important one in the life of Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, ruler and sole owner of Germany's $1 billion Krupp industrial empire. On Alfried Krupp's soth birthday, his worldwide empire was ready to do him honor...
...bachelor quarters first came his mother Bertha, 71, after whom German troops fondly named the famed "Big Bertha" cannon in World War I. Other relatives followed, presenting greetings and family gifts. Courteously, bowing slightly, Alfried Krupp* received a workers' delegate who stiffly presented him with a large steel candelabrum made in the Krupp factories. Then he settled into a black, chauffeur-driven BMW sedan for the 15-minute ride into Essen, the center of his empire and a city built almost entirely by the Krupps. There the day's most important ceremony began. On Müchener Strasse...
GERMANY'S ALFRIED KRUPP will build a $4,000,000 synthetic-textile plant in U.S.S.R. His industrial manufacturing and construction firm (yearly sales: $3 billion) got first large plant construction order placed by Soviets with West German company...
Then, too, Turkey's old allies and friends, the Germans, had come back. Representing his fellow Ruhr industrialists, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach was taken on a tour of Turkey's mines and factories and lavishly feted. He promised to spend 71 million marks ($17 million) on a new blast furnace that would more than double Turkey's pig-iron production. Excited Turkish newspapers headlined that Krupp "might" also finance a bridge across the Bosporus, "might" build a railway to Iran (he did say that he would be happy to furnish some of the equipment). German...
...Turks' enthusiasm for the Germans and Krupp's enthusiasm for his reception ("like a dream") was tonic to the Menderes administration. Just before leaving for Karachi, Menderes said that he would increase by 33.5% the price the government pays farmers for wheat. Orthodox economists and U.S. advisers were horrified; almost everyone else concluded that the rise was a sign that Menderes intends to call for general elections this fall and is making sure of the farm vote...