Word: consortium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entire Skoda Works from Czecho-Slovakia to Brazil. When World War II began to devour more steel than Europe could produce, Axel Wenner-Gren, Swedish steel baron (Bofors), was also supposed to have turned up in Rio de Janeiro with an offer for exploitation by a Swedish-German consortium said to include Krupp. Hoping to interest U. S. capital, Brazil issued pointed warnings that unless the Yanquis became more ardent in their financial wooing she would leap into the arms of Hitler...