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thankless task of cutting out waste and overgrowth and strengthening the organization brought the company back to a profit-earning basis. But under his governorship its prosperity increased steadily and his resignation, which was announced immediately after his sixty-fifth birthday, was greatly regretted.
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seek complaints or give advice. To a ministry which had been set up only a short time before the war he brought qualities which were in special demand and those who worked with him and under him knew they could rely upon his support for bold rather than cautious decisions.
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