Word: vogelsang
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...fantasies suddenly perceives a pattern to it all, and what first appeared as the incoherent, the arbitrary and the meaningless, is transformed into the possibly intentional. So Herbert Stencil in V. chases around the world and backward in history to find what, if anything, Vera, Valletta, Vheissu and Vogelsang have in common. And Oedipa Maas, in The Crying of Lot 49, drives up and down the Californian coast exploring the remains of an underground postal system that has survived silently for centuries. But Stencil, Maas and Slothrop can never confirm their conspiracies, and what is more, they cannot tell which...
...executive that he hopes to become. Now 49, Krackow has rotated among high positions in banking, construction and machine-tool production. Now he has taken over as chairman of the executive board of the fabled and recently troubled Krupp steelmaking and heavy machinery concern. Krackow replaces Güinter Vogelsang, who rescued the Ruhr giant from the brink of bankruptcy, then bowed out in disagreement with the powerful former chief executive, Berthold Beitz...
...former panzer officer with a doctorate in law, Krackow has worked for the Commerzbank, one of Germany's Big Three, and for British Investment Banker Siegmund Warburg. After shifting into industry, he became a successful doctor of ailing companies. Vogelsang recruited him four years ago to take charge of Krupp's weakest branch, its money-losing shipbuilding subsidiary, A.G. Weser. Under Krackow's management, the number of man-hours needed to produce a supertanker was cut by one-third, and Weser swung round from a loss of $8.5 million in 1968 to a profit of $4.7 million...
...Beitz is unlikely to regain direct management control from the man who is largely responsible for Krupp's resurgence: Chief Executive Gunter Vogelsang, 50. Vogelsang (his name means "bird song" in German), who comes from a family of Rhineland managers, is an icily efficient financial specialist with the sturdy build and wavy hair of an idealized halfback. He learned much of his management technique in two lengthy tours of the U.S., during which he visited IBM, National Cash Register, Bethlehem Steel, Republic Steel and other firms. A publicity-shy man with few outside interests, he regularly puts...
...Hole. At Krupp, Vogelsang has shown what can be accomplished when an outsider slips into a family firm and snips the ties that bind it to traditions. Taking charge in 1968, he quickly changed the paternalistic policy of never laying off a "Kruppianer" and never closing down a branch. He reduced the number of divisions from 23 to 14, pared the work force from 90,400 to 79,500, and sold off holdings in low-yield properties, including a hotel and department store in Essen, the Krupps' soot-filled home city. The Krupp truck plant, which lost...