Word: montaner
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...Austria nothing else is quite so valuable as the Erzberg, Styria's great tawny mountain of iron ore. In the Erzberg nestle some 800,000,000 tons of iron. It belongs to Alpine Montan Gesellschaft and A. M. G. is controlled by the German Steel Trust of Fritz Thyssen, No. 1 contributor to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party funds. Unable to crack down on Thyssen in Germany, the Austrian Government last week sent soldiers to A. M. G.'s resident Director General Herr Anton Apold. Under his nose they shoved an order from the Ministry of Justice...
...Reputedly last week it was the Heimwehr, furious at their former backer, who demanded that Chancellor Schuschnigg squeeze the 'Iron Mountain" for a cool $70,000. According to a Heimwehr manifesto, "If the Government fails to make its fist felt by the all-powerful Director Apold of Alpine Montan Gesellschaft, all the Government's efforts against the Nazis in Styria will prove vain...
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