Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grabbed the Ruhr. Without it, the German war machine would have been weak, and the incredibly successful conquests of 1939 to 1942 impossible. But with the most concentrated industrial region in the world working for him, Hitler conquered Europe. Once the Nazis were defeated, the Allied coalition determined to control the Ruhr, to make sure that Germany would never again have the productive means for war. Originally, the Allies planned to pull up the factories by the foundations and turn the Ruhr into a pasture-land. This drastic position was, however, economically dangerous, and slowly gave way to a more...
...State Department has asserted that German control is the only way to hike Ruhr production--which has nonetheless been rising steadily all along. Supporters of the official position minimize French fears as historical nervousness that is now outdated. The unofficial aim is directly at Russia: anything that will jazz up Ruhr output is desirable, even if it alienates Frenchmen and all those who remember the terrible years when the foundations of German tyranny in Europe were the factories of the Ruhr...
...decision to keep the Government in the grain business was a victory for Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan, who does not want to diminish CCC's power to exert control over grain markets. The election, Brannan apparently thought, had given the Administration a mandate to continue the kind of Government trading that Congress had frowned...
...Brookings Institution's President Harold G. Moulton took a look at prospects for 1949 and liked what he saw: "A well-sustained level of national production and employment; a moderate decline in the cost of living; continued but abortive efforts at credit control; an expansion of Government expenditures for social and defense programs; [and] higher wages." Farm prospects would be dimmed by "a further decline in agricultural prices," and corporations would face increased taxes. But an increase in crops might prevent any real drop in farm incomes, said Moulton, and lower farm prices would "afford real relief for those...
...Ford's hour of radio drama are $10,000 a week. Besides actors, ten production people are needed. Production costs of a similar Ford show on television (the Ford Theater) are $17,000; and a production staff of 40, including 13 stagehands and five men in the control room to direct them, is required...