Word: mannesmann
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...announced last week that the Mannesmann brothers (German industrial magnates in the Ruhr) had sold their Moroccan properties. The Mannesmanns, Reinhard and Max, now men in their late 60's, eminent industrial metallurgists, many years ago bought up many valuable properties from Moroccan sheiks. These properties were involved in the famous Agadir incident which brought the erstwhile Kaiser down to Morocco with diplomatic complications several decades ago. During the war the Mannesmann properties in French Morocco were confiscated. Now they have sold their property in the Spanish zone...