Word: skoda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet. Bata had 13,500 at work turning out 550,000 pairs of shoes a week (about half of its best prewar production). In all Bata's Zlin enterprises, stockings, tires, machine tools, etc., there were 50,000 at work, second largest payroll in Czechoslovakia (first: Skoda). And in the first half of 1946 Bata National Enterprise reported a profit of 200,000,000 crowns...
...Prague suburb of Vrane. In 1930, when he was 28, Vejvoda scribbled down Modran-ska Polka (his first composition) for his small stringed orchestra which played in the village park. Only in 1934 did he let it be published and words set to it. One Vasek Zeman retitled it Skoda Lasky (Jilted Love) and wrote these sob-saccharine lyrics in Czech...
...destroyers were ordered to Tushan, where Gleason gaped at the assignment-warehouse after warehouse stacked ceiling high with tons and tons of small-arms ammunition bearing such brand names as Skoda, Krupp, Winchester. Other buildings were filled with mortar shells and dynamite...
...even motion pictures to show the devastation being inflicted on German plants and communications. One point which impressed the Russians strongly: Germany's relative artillery weakness, exploited brilliantly by Soviet generals in recent battles, was caused mainly by heavy Allied raids on the giant Krupp, Schneider and Skoda gun factories...
...this century, bought iron mines, mills, foundries, and shipyards in France, mines in Belgium and Poland, plants in Russia, finally founded the holding company, Union Européenne Industrielle et Financière. Through it Schneider-Creusot ultimately controlled 182 armaments works in France, 230 outside, including the giant Skoda works in Czecho-Slovakia. Skoda was allegedly Schneider's "dirty works" plant-handler of contracts Schneider-Creusot would have found politically embarrassing. Through control of the newspapers Le Temps and Journal des Débats, he propagandized on international affairs. When Europe was dreaming of a permanent peace Schneider...