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Another defendant. Artur Harder, a clerk in the Krupp truck factory in Frankfurt, was accused of having helped Heuser tie victims to a stake, "pour fuel on and light the living sacrifices." Harder said that he was kept so busy cremating bodies in a special incinerator he had devised that he had been able to take off only two days for his honeymoon. Following Harder's testimony, the judges cleared the court of school-age children, apparently on the theory that they were getting too vivid a picture of Nazi horror...
Though industrialization is just beginning in earnest, the companies that have spread branches in Greece read like a Who's Who of international business: Germany's Krupp, Italy's Pirelli, France's Pechiney and Saint-Gobain. The U.S.'s Reynolds Metals is breaking ground near Delphi for a $59 million aluminum plant using Greece's ample reserves of bauxite, and Dow Chemical has opened a polystyrene plant at Lavrion, site of ancient Greek gold and silver mines. From the rocky perch near Athens where Xerxes once helplessly watched his mighty Persian armada being turned...
...sales: $1.4 billion) Philips Lamp, is proud that members of his family now own less than 1% of the stock. "If the stockholders decide I am doing a bad job," says Philips, "I go." And in Germany, where hired managers have traditionally been regarded with distrust, Steel Scion Alfried Krupp has given unprecedented authority to his general manager, Berthold Beitz. Among old-line Krupp executives, Beitz's breezy manner has won him the not entirely complimentary nickname der Amerikaner, but he has succeeded in diversifying the company from purely heavy industry into trading and construction...
...began to leapfrog up the executive ladder. His big break came in 1956 when he was named chief financial and administrative officer of one of Metallgesell-schaft's major subsidiaries. He was lured away from that post by rival Mannesmann, West Germany's second largest steelmaker (after Krupp), which was searching for a bright young man to preside over its drive for diversification. Scheduled to take over as chief executive of Mannesmann Oct. 1, genial Herr Doktor Overbeck is currently studying the company's operations under the tutelage of retiring Chairman Hermann Winkhaus, 65, this week will...
...Demag's sales in 97 countries totaled $250 million, and one-third of the world's rolled steel is now churned out by Demag-made mills. In ironic tribute to the company's size-and the fact that it has never made weapons-Germans call it "Krupp without teeth...