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From Ashes to Atoms. Fastest growing of the top three Farben heirs is Farbwerke Hoechst near Frankfurt, whose moving force is energetic Board Chairman Karl Winnacker, 53, a wartime Farben plant manager. Hoechst's sales-antibiotics, synthetic fibers, cellophane and oxygen-rocketed 17% last year to $355 million. Now the company is taking German industry's first steps toward harnessing the atom. It operates a nuclear research laboratory outside Frankfurt and is building a heavy-water plant (annual capacity: six tons) that will be among Europe's biggest when completed this year. Last week, with Atomic Energy...
...year in passenger and freight traffic) will open the door for much more foreign competition for U.S. airlines. The State Department got in return rights for U.S. carriers to fly from any point in the U.S. to Amsterdam and beyond (the U.S. now flies from Amsterdam only to Frankfurt) and into and beyond Surinam and The Netherlands Antilles (Pan American already flies to the Antilles). But U.S. carriers belittle such concessions, point out that air traffic between the U.S. and the Antilles is light, and that Amsterdam offers little opportunity for extra European traffic...
...Sp/3) EDWIN C. WELDON, U.S.A. Frankfurt, Germany...
...Prague when A.P. Correspondent William Oatis was jailed on a phony charge of spying (TIME, July 16, 1951 et seq.). After ignoring repeated warnings from the State Department that it would only be a matter of time before he was arrested, Jones was finally inveigled to Frankfurt by the U.P. for a "conference," was not permitted to go back. Said a U.P. colleague: "He's just a guy who likes to stay where things are happening...
Volkskrieg. In Frankfurt am Main. Germany, arrested after confessing that he had slashed the tires of 50 cars in seven weeks, the 21-year-old defendant explained: "I cannot stand to see cars being driven when I myself have to go everywhere on foot...