Word: opel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team was brought into action, another group of Communist thugs had tried three times to kidnap Dr. Linse, and failed. Then team No. 2-Knobloch, a professional wrestler and two other bully boys-got the alert. At 7:20 on the morning of July 8, an East German Opel, disguised as a West Berlin taxicab, stopped outside Linse's home. Linse emerged and Knobloch asked him for a light. As Linse fumbled for his lighter, the wrestler pinioned his arms. Linse broke free and ran to the "cab" seeking help. The thugs inside grabbed him, threw him into...
...Happened. Naguib is a "strong man"-but he neither looks nor acts the part. He lives in a modest suburban house with his wife and three young sons, earns $4,000 a year, smokes cheap Toscani tobacco and drives a tiny German Opel on which he still owes three or four payments. Quiet and self-effacing, a better listener than he is a talker, he exudes an old-fashioned courtesy that echoes the prose of the Koran. How did this mild-mannered man lead a revolution in a land where corruption, disease, glaring wealth and bitter poverty...
...lack of mass-production experience got the plant snarled up. In 1948, the British brought in Heinz Nordhoff, who, as boss of General Motors' Opel subsidiary in Brandenburg, Germany, had run the biggest prewar truck factory in Europe. Nordhoff inherited a weird setup. No one knew who owned the Volkswagen factory or who should get its profits. Technically built by the Nazis' German Labor Front, the money came from 300,000 "Volkswagen savers," who paid $2 a week in advance for the cars they never got. But Nordhoff didn't care who owned the factory. Said...