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...industrialists. He operated as a lone wolf, got rich by successively working for the Nazis as a steel expert, selling millions of dollars worth of steel to Communist East Germany, and swapping German steel for U.S. coal during the Korean war. Old-line German businessmen regarded him as "nicht salonfdhig"-not acceptable in drawing room society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: The Bigger They Come | 8/24/1962 | See Source »

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