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...Ministry, the word was passed that France once again would welcome American investment. Thus Chicago-based Motorola has just won official permission to build a multimillion-dollar plant at Toulouse to make transistors, diodes and integrated circuits. International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. recently received approval for a semiconductor factory at Colmar, and the French subsidiary of Caterpillar got authority in mid-March to double the size of its Grenoble tractor factory. Though the French still consider some industries off limits for foreign capital-among them, defense, steel, chemicals and some types of electronics-the Ministry of Economics and Finance...
...plants, the Americans 8. German-owned Triumph employs 800 people at a corset and girdle factory in Strasbourg; other German companies are busy making shoes, office equipment, and engineering and precision instruments. America's Timken Roller-Bearing has built the largest foreign-owned plant (1,000 employees) at Colmar; Remington Rand employs 311 persons to produce electric shavers at Huttenheim; Minoc, a subsidiary of Rohm & Haas, makes ion exchangers at Lauterbourg. Wrigley will enter Alsace next year, turn out three brands of chewing gum at a new $4 million plant near Colmar. Near the Swiss border, Swiss-owned companies...
...opportunities waiting for metal workers in May, 5,000 more than a year ago. In France, De Gaulle's massive attempt to move industries into the provinces ran into the resistance of French workers loath to move to new areas. A precision-products manufacturer in Colmar complained: "We scoured eastern France for people, and we know they just don't exist...
...work, a mere 38 sketches and the whole or parts of ten altarpieces, including the Washington National Gallery's Crucifixion (TIME, July 18, 1955). Quite properly, 62 of the book's 143 plates are devoted to Griine-wald's twelve-paneled Isenheim altarpiece (now in Colmar's Unterlinden Museum), a work so famous it was mentioned in the Treaty of Versailles...
...just after the Anschluss, the Schells moved to Switzerland and rented the Zurich villa where Richard Wagner had worked on Tristan und Isolde. Maria was packed off to a convent school at Colmar in Alsace. At 15, she begged her father to let her study dramatics, but papa was an unsuccessful playwright as well as a practical Swiss, and he laid down the law: business school. Maria took a typing course and a job wrapping books in a mail-order house. Salary: about $11.50 a month. It was grim, but it did not last long...