Word: tissen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...1860s August Thyssen (pronounced tissen) started his steel business in a cow house outside Mulheim, in the Ruhr Valley, making hoop-iron at first. In 50 years he came to own coal fields in the Ruhr and iron-ore concessions in Lorraine and Northern France, and to employ 25,000 workers. When he died in 1926 at 84 he left an estate worth more than...
Figuring that some stronger man must be behind a leader who looks like Adolf Hitler, groping feature writers have for months been serving up Steel Tycoon Fritz Thyssen (pronounced Tissen) as the shrewd Maécenas who "bought" the Nazis when they were poor, the Master Mind of National Socialism...
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