Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tightest labor supply in booming Germany's history has employers at each other's throats not for customers but for workers-and there is no worry about the expansion in population that preoccupies many of the world's sociologists. One South German auto manufacturer, after hiring every idle man in 30 miles not confined to a wheelchair, sent a recruiting team through Germany offering competitors' workers big pay increases. Another employer offered to pay his men $9.52 to bring in a teammate. When a depressed Ruhr coal mine laid off 400 men, a Frankfurt rubber factory...
...labor shortage has made refugees from East Germany welcome guests instead of mouths to feed. Many German employers keep fulltime agents at the refugee reception centers; they hire about 7,000 working-age refugees a month. Supplementing these immigrants, the government itself maintains a recruiting office in Italy, this year has obtained 15,000 Italians to work in Germany, in addition to 10,000 who came unassisted...
...Germany's competitors the bidding up of German real wages is a relief. While Germany has boomed, the unions have been slow to demand higher wages. Now that German industry is being forced to share more of its prosperity with its workers, part of the trade advantage that has raised Germany's gold and dollar reserves past $5 billion will be lost...
...Rhine and Moselle vineyards. The head of the Wurzburg Wine Producers Association said: "I would not even be surprised if my grandchildren or their children called this wine the wine of the millennium." Said a less historically minded producer: "This will be real saufwein (boozing wine)." The Germans rate wine quality by the degree of sugar content in the grapes before fermentation. By this standard, the predicted sugar content of the 1959 harvest will make German wines, like those of France, the best produced so far in this century...
...this task, the Institut got off to an appropriate multinational start. The 62 first-year enrollees (chosen from 160 applications) represent 14 countries, attend lectures in English, French and German, are taught by German, Belgian, French, Canadian, British, Italian, Dutch, Swiss and U.S. professors. To be accepted, each student has to speak two of the teaching languages, be able to understand a third. Initially, classes are being conducted in a corner of the palace, a French national monument, but Director General Willem Christopher Posthumus Meyjes, a Dutch diplomat, expects in four years to have a new campus outside Paris. Ultimate...