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...Public company based in Walldorf, Germany CEO: Hasso Plattner and Henning Kagermann What it does: Designs and implements efficiency-building software solutions that slash costs and give managers control over global empires by consolidating a company's operations, from order taking to production and accounting Why it is hot: SAP's product range is broad and its focus on e-business helped the company report a 29% increase to $1.4 billion in the first quarter over the same period last year www.sap.com
Butcher's Son. Author Terrell tells the story of America's first tycoon in breathless prose that only hints at the character of the man but that traces his serpentine financial dealings in encyclopedic detail. Born the son of a butcher in the German village of Walldorf,* Astor took passage for America in 1783, when he was barely 19. Less than six months later, while he was serving as a baker's delivery boy, he bought his first fur pelt on the New York waterfront in exchange for some sugar buns. Aided by a loan from...
...others run a small electrical appliances shop, and Johann Jakob Astor is a retired cop. All of them, and about 75 other families of the same name, live in Walldorf, West Germany. They were the ones fur-trading Millionaire John Jacob Astor left behind to go to America in 1783. And on the 200th birthday of "the great Dollarmacher," the Walldorfers threw a week-long party, drank beer, and recalled the town legend of how old John Jacob arrived for his one return visit: he was wearing humble clothes and was scorned as a failure, whereupon he stormed...
Miss Anny Ondra, as Monika Boehnicke, a sales girl, scratches her ribs in the various ecstasies of love until the wealthy Americo-German financier is willing to marry her. Walldorf, who is described as a business man, rushes about with his wife alternately trying to pay for clothes that are being repaired, and giving lavish dinners. Monika's idea of paradise is a drunken brawl with much sitting on mirrors and with her mother and father downstairs, weeping...
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