Word: krupps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hour agreement in the area with Doug Peach, and offered such advanced amenities for the time as company cafeterias, recreation fields and medical clinics. "His desire to help people almost got out of hand in the end," says a Rubery Owen executive. "He wanted to own people, like Krupp...
...miners their jobs between 1957 and 1973, management and workers consulted closely on mine closings and programs for re-employment, retraining and early retirement of employees. Result: the shrinkage was accomplished with no major labor disputes. Mitbestimmung, says Karl-Heinz Briam, labor representative on the board of Krupp's steel operation, "is something like marriage with no divorce possible...
Guido Goldman '59, executive director of the Center for European Studies and lecturer on Government, is the University's Reischauer for Europe. Goldman was mostly responsible for landing the $2 million grant from the Alfred Krupp Foundation that established a chair and a graduate fellowship in social sciences: he was instrumental in the negotiating of a grant for $930,000 from the German government to study Germany and Europe; and, he got a $124,000 Volkswagen grant for European studies. But Goldman sees more future in cultivating American corporations' dealings with Europe. The largest European foundations have an average income...
Goldman was responsible for negotiating a gift in June 1974 of $12 million from the Alfred Krupp Foundation of Germany, the largest gift ever made to an American university by a German foundation...
...industrialized West, no single company today stands out as a symbol of arms production in the way that Germany's Krupp or Britain's Vickers once did. Major U.S. weapons makers also, for example, turn out such pacific products as farm machinery and hair dryers. A relatively small number of firms-not necessarily the same ones that rank as the Defense Department's principal suppliers-dominate America's arms sales overseas. Last year the Pentagon listed the U.S.'s top ten armaments exporters...