Word: sprees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...View of the Spree, by Alson J. Smith. It seems that Kaiser Wilhelm had an American mistress, who, despite her Calvinist morality (she made him burn his collection of dirty pictures), became an ardent German nationalist. The author, her grandnephew, has set down a fascinating history, although he has failed to establish (as he believes) that Auntie was a major cause of World...
...View of the Spree, by Alson J. Smith...
...Spree. Within two years, Grace had decided the company must diversify-into chemicals and in a big way. Chemicals, he says, "were one of the few industries in which our entry wouldn't create an imbalance or an overcapacity." To the horror of most Grace elders, he launched the company on a $250 million spending spree, designed to buy new technical and executive skills as well as new businesses. Within the next decade, a series of eight acquisitions put Grace into sealing compounds, plastics, resin coatings, chemical catalysts, synthetic rubber, oil refining, and nuclear fuel processing. Sales to chemicals...
...VIEW OF THE SPREE (305 pp.)-Alson J. Smith-John...
...withered left arm made him feel insecure, she put him at ease with a few soulful chats. She earned his gratitude by finding him a submissive little wife, who later bore him eight children. Husband in tow, Mary moved into an elegant house in Berlin overlooking the River Spree. Wilhelm, who lived 16 miles away at the Sans Souci Palace in Potsdam, was soon spending most of his time on the Spree. "The serene confidence of the American woman," writes Smith, "must have exercised a powerful attraction on the crippled, inferiority-haunted heir to the German throne...