Word: schnabel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crisp-and in Mozart's Concerto in C Major, K.503, Fleisher afforded Soloist Claude Frank the kind of knowing partnership that made it seem as if the two men were playing four-hand piano -which indeed they used to do, as brilliant pupils of the late Artur Schnabel...
...Herbert Schnabel's tastes run to handmade gold cuff links. He drives a Soviet-built Chaika, the same make as Communist Chief Walter Ulbricht's. He probably earns about $125,000 a year (before stiff taxes) as president of Lucie Kaiser K.G., near Leipzig. East Germany's largest semiprivate women's fashion firm, it employs 370 workers, has annual sales of $3,000,000 and exports 65% of its product, for which Schnabel has won the Medal of the German Democratic Republic. Schnabel dates his prosperity from 1960 when, to raise capital for expansion, he sold...
...like it is. It's easier facing state officials than the stockholders." After consultation, officials give him target figures for sales, employees and exports. As long as the targets are met, the state stays relatively silent. The bureaucrats demand a pretax profit of at least 6%; last year Schnabel doubled the figure...
Consulting the Workers. Schnabel is convinced that if he had fled to West Germany before the Wall went up, he would now be a millionaire. But he says he is not sorry. "You can't take it with you, and I'm not sure I'd have it, with all the gangster methods of competition." He boasts that when his bridal gowns and pantsuits are sold in West Germany, the stores switch his East German labels for fake Paris labels and double the price...