Word: morely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Digging into the fat tome, which in English runs to 344 pages, scholars noted that it falls into four sections. The first, comprising more than half the book, rehearses the whole of German-Polish relations, 1919-39, to depict "The Fight Against the Germans in Poland and Against Danzig and...
In the 1860s August Thyssen (pronounced tissen) started his steel business in a cow house outside Mulheim, in the Ruhr Valley, making hoop-iron at first. In 50 years he came to own coal fields in the Ruhr and iron-ore concessions in Lorraine and Northern France, and to employ...
Of his three sons, two were disappointments. Heinrich, the eldest, married a Hungarian noblewoman, was made a baron of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire by Emperor Franz Josef, and thereafter showed more interest in collecting art than in making steel. At 60 he divorced his Baroness and married a Berlin...
Under Nazi rule Herr Thyssen became economic dictator of heavy industry, member of the Prussian State Council, a Reichstag member, chairman of a dozen boards. He had no more labor troubles on his hands, since the Nazis suppressed the unions. Rearmament brought millions of marks' worth of orders to...
Then the rosy picture began to fade. The State began to interfere more & more with Big Business, to bear down on profits and increase taxes. Two years ago the Ruhr industrialist complained of being followed, of having his telephone tapped and his mail opened by the Gestapo. A long trip...