Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still has deep reservations about Britain's membership in the Common Market. Reasonably enough, he fears that Franco-German dominance in Europe's affairs will be challenged by Britain's admission, is troubled also by the threat that this will pose to West Germany's coal, textile and agricultural production. On the other hand, the majority of West Germans would welcome Britain to the community. Says Erich Mende, leader of the Free Democratic party, and an often critical colleague in Adenauer's coalition government: "We believe that we cannot exist without Great Britain. The parties...
Trouble is building up again for Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco. Ten weeks after settlement of the first successful strike in El Candillo's 25-year reign, the tough coal miners of Asturias once more were leaving the pits, pressing demands for a five-day week and calling for still more cash to add to their newly won wage increases. At week's end 10,000 workers at 15 mines were...
With the softness in steel, coal and rails, general business activity in the Pittsburgh area, as measured by the University of Pittsburgh, is down to 84.4% of the 1957-59 average. One in ten workers is unemployed, and 156,000 families in Allegheny County are eligible for free federal surplus food. Chicago's economy, though growing, expands at a rate slower than that of the nation as a whole. The city's business is widely diversified, but is light on the fastest-growing industries, such as aerospace and electronics. The fastest-growing regions-the West and the Southeast...
...citizen raises his voice in the Dutch coal-mining town of Kerkrade (pop. 50.-ooo), the locals boast, "They can hear it in Belgium and Germany." For the last month, Kerkrade has been heard more clearly than ever-but visitors have been making all the noise. As the scene of a quadrennial spasm known as the "Fourth Musical Competition of Kerkrade," the town has become the Bayreuth of the marching brasses, the Salzburg of the wood winds, the Milano of the mandolin orchestras. Amateur bandsmen travel thousands of miles to compete in Kerk-rade's concours-this year there...
...Schlieker had done little to endear himself to bankers or fellow industrialists. He operated as a lone wolf, got rich by successively working for the Nazis as a steel expert, selling millions of dollars worth of steel to Communist East Germany, and swapping German steel for U.S. coal during the Korean war. Old-line German businessmen regarded him as "nicht salonfdhig"-not acceptable in drawing room society...