Word: leverkusen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After V-E day, the Allies dismembered Farben, splitting off the large Hoechst and B.A.S.F. branches and leaving Bayer with only its badly damaged plant at Leverkusen and 3,000 employees. Came the cold war and Bayer in 1952 was permitted to repossess most of its prewar plants and resume full speed. Bayer's Rhineside headquarters at Leverjusen now embrace 600 buildings, including a 33-story skyscraper that is Germany's tallest. Looking Outward. A concentration on foreign markets has helped put Bayer ahead of its German competitors. Nearly half its sales are exports, and it has interests...
...also studied business ad ministration, Hansen feels at ease in New York (where he established Bayer's postwar relations with U.S. companies) or India (where he was called in recently to advise the government on setting up a chemical industry). He works in a Spartan office in Leverkusen, but drives home three miles each noon for lunch with his pretty wife...