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...ceiling on sales. Last year Daimler-Benz, the manufacturer of Mercedes, sold a record $1.2 billion worth of cars and trucks -a 5.9% increase over the previous year-and is doing even better this year. As every German knows, what is good for the Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft is good for the Bundesrepublik...
...goods that it sells to Iron Curtain countries has quintupled to $500 million annually. Now a new phase in the country's push eastward is beginning. West Germany and Poland are setting up a company owned jointly by the private West German firm of IBAG (for Internationale Baumaschinenfabrik Aktiengesellschaft) and the Polish state...
...Theme. The charges followed the pattern of six recent suits against the Du Pont Company, four of them involving I.C.I. The group is alleged to have elimi nated competition by splitting up world markets. Similar deals were supposedly made with Germany's I. G. Farben-industrie and Dynamit Aktiengesellschaft (D.A.G.), ending when World War II began. The complaint broke new ground only in naming I.C.I, as a defendant, in stead of a coconspirator, and by naming Lords McGowan and Melchett...
Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, at the time his engagement to Crown Princess Juliana was announced (TIME, Sept. 14), was a minor salaried employe of the great German chemical trust I. G. Farben-industrie Aktiengesellschaft, and a Nazi Storm Trooper. As the future Prince Consort of The Netherlands he became a naturalized Dutch subject and swore allegiance to his future mother-in-law Queen Wilhelmina (TIME, Jan. 4). This made no difference to Nazi Party fanatics who insist, "Once a German always a German!" Last week rampant Nazis were whooping against the ex-German and ex-Nazi bridegroom in almost...
...Wilhelmina, Princess of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Doctor of Philosophy and honorary Doctor of Letters, to Prince Bernhard Leopold Frederic Eberhard Jules Curt Charles Godfrey Peter von Lippe-Biesterfeld, a sportsmanly apprentice employed without pay by the colossal German Dye Trust I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft. It was in 1916 that the reigning Prince of the German principality of Lippe conferred on "Benno's" mother and her descendants the princely title of Lippe-Biesterfeld. Previously in 1909 he had elevated her to the rank of Countess Biesterfeld...