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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...City's Richest...
WILLY HERMANN SCHLIEKER is the outstanding example of this type. Only 37, Schlieker is one of the Ruhr's ablest, richest (total 1950 business: $24 million) operators in the steel business. Son of a poor Hamburg ship fitter, he started work at 16 as an SS typist, joined the Nazi Party in 1941. He has twice reorganized the German steel industry: once for Hitler's war production boss, Albert Speer, later for the Allies. With similar impartiality, he shipped $12 million worth of goods to the Soviets in 1949-50. Then, when Bonn clamped down on this trade...
...Street's biggest speculators, has a Beverly Hills mansion, three Nevada ranches, a fleet of 20 cars (mostly Cadillacs) and two planes which he usually flies himself. Last week, at 56, Cord was back in the news with an incredible scheme to get control of some of the richest submerged oil wells off Louisiana and California. "Back in the old days," says Cord, "they called some of my deals fantastic. They weren't. They were simple business deals in essence. But this situation-this is truly fantastic...
...gift was the first contribution the University received from the Ford Foundation, America's richest philanthropic trust, and was to be used for research in behavior and human relations...
...crisis battle of the next two to five years will be fought in the area of the Philippines, Indo-China and Indonesia, where 300 million persons live on the richest undeveloped land in the world," said Dewey. First trouble probably will come in Indo-China. If Indo-China is lost, India will be next and Japan will be deprived of any non-Communist market to feed a healthy economy...