Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help that Bolivia is getting in U.S. technical cooperation for health, education, agriculture and roads. Siles put U.S. dollar help at more than $23 million for the fiscal year-plus an emergency $2,000,000 for Bolivia's drought-parched farm areas. He praised the "evident spirit of international cooperation" demonstrated by the $25 million currency-stabilization loan granted last December by the International Monetary Fund, the U.S. Treasury and the U.S. International Cooperation Administration, pointing to the boliviano's climb (from 13,000 to the dollar...
...English-speaking readers, and last week the Greeks were determined to show their gratitude. In the name of the King, the Minister of Education decorated her with the Golden Cross of the Order of Benefaction. But in a sense, the honor of citizenship was a mere formality, for in spirit Edith Hamilton has always been an Athenian...
After the German armies were driven back, the victorious Allies chopped off half of Krupp's steelmaking capacity, carried the equipment away, destroyed 2,000,000 machines and tools. But they could not destroy the spirit of Krupp's workers, who halted the dismantling process by going on strike during the French occupation. Furious, the French threw Gustav in jail for seven months. By the time Hitler came to power in 1933, the firm had built itself up again by producing a steady flow of peacetime goods. It had also violated the Versailles Treaty by secretly carrying...
Kruppianer Spirit. Krupp was confident from the first that his prison sentence would be reduced. In 1951. having made an investigation of Krupp's war guilt. U.S. High Commissioner for Germany John J. McCloy commuted the sentences of Alfried and his directors to time already served. Said Lawyer McCloy: "I can find no personal guilt in Defendant Krupp, based upon the charges in this case, sufficient to distinguish him above all others sentenced by the Nurnberg courts." He therefore ordered Krupp's property returned to him though Krupp later had to sign the Mehlen Accord which split...
...able to rebuild with modern equipment that produced faster, better and more cheaply than its old equipment, then being used by the British, French and Russians. Even more important were the thousands of Krupp workers whose loyalty to the firm drove them to frenzied efforts to rebuild. This "Kruppianer spirit" was the fruit of a cradle-to-grave system of social security started by the company more than 100 years ago. Now it owns housing space for 12,000 families, builds new houses at the rate of 500 a year. For nearly every active Krupp worker, there is a retired...