Word: krupp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American, British, French, and West German commission is weighing whether to grant a request by Adenauer that Krupp be allowed to keep his multibillion-dollar interests...
...talks began, one new possibility was reported by informed diplomats. Macmillan and Adenauer may discuss the future of Alfried Krupp's huge coal-steel empire in West Germany...
Under a 1953 Allied agreement, Krupp was ordered to divest himself of 74 per cent of his holdings. This was to insure against the resurrection of a combine that had helped build Hitler's war machine...
Alchemistic Search. The initial secret of the Krupp success was failure. The founder of modern Kruppdom, Friedrich, was a turn-of-the-19th-century dreamer, prophetically dedicated to an industrialized Germany. He spent his life in a quasi-alchemistic search for "the secret of casting steel," processed more irony than iron in his foundry, the Forge of Good Hope, and died at 39 of dropsy and despair. His son Alfred was later to find and filch the sought-for secret from British forgemasters while posing as a frivolous visiting baron, Herr Schropp. After he set the Essen smokestacks belching, Alfred...
...monstrous Victorian pile of 160 rooms. To avoid drafts, the windows were permanently sealed. Alfred's own den was built over the stables, as he believed that horse-manure fumes stimulated thought. His most pungent effort was the Generalregulativ, a book of rules that established the Fuehrerprinzip at Krupp's a good half century before der Fuehrer. Alfred dictated his workers' lives down to prescribing their off-duty shoes (wooden clogs). His wife took 25 years of the same niggling, then fled. When he died, Alfred left behind him more than 30,000 interoffice memos...