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...year history, Germany's Krupp industrial complex has often seemed as much a sovereign state as a business enterprise. Bismarck, the Kaisers and Hitler all courted the house of Krupp. Kaiser Wilhelm I called it "a national institution." Five generations of Krupps have made a proud point of imperiously waving away even bankers' questions about company finances...
...holiday greeting to his 110,000 employees, Industrialist Alfried Krupp could not resist a reference to West Germany's economic woes and a sober prophecy that 1967 "will not bring any relief." It was a message that all of his countrymen could ponder: after years of heady prosperity, West Germany seems to be caught in a swinging door between present inflation and potential recession...
...question as to whether they were for better or worse. By last summer, the domestic money market had so dried up that German businessmen advertised futilely in the London Financial Times for investment capital. Squeezed by rising labor costs and tight money, industry has pulled in the reins. The Krupp complex has a six-month supply of unsold trucks, may have to put 1,500 workers on reduced shifts. Volkswagen, with 84% of recent sales in overseas markets because of a severe drop in domestic demand, has cut 17 days off its production schedule for the next three months...
...work, focusing on the period of Nov. 20-25, 1963. The author of two well-received biographies (of H. L. Mencken and the Rockefeller family) and four indifferently received novels-none of which came close to bestsellerdom-he halted work on a book about Germany's vast Krupp industrial empire, set up shop in a cubicle in Washington's National Archives building. Next door was Evelyn Lincoln, J.F.K.'s White House secretary...
...memorandum indicating ten personal passages about Jackie that the Kennedys were anxious to delete; at that point, they were not even attempting to change the book's tone toward Johnson, despite their alarm at it. Two Harper executives flew to London, where Manchester was working on his interrupted Krupp book, to discuss the changes. Later they said that some changes had been made, but refused to show the galleys to the Kennedys. Look also refused to show them its galleys. Jackie finally decided to sue. Bobby would have preferred avoiding a court case, but once Jackie made...