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...open later this summer its fabulous Building Exhibition, to which the world's greatest architects, from France's Le Corbusier to Brazil's Niemeyer and America's Gropius have each contributed a structure. Mercedes-Benz cars crowd the Autobahnen, and so many workers are buying Kleinstwagen (small one-or two-cylinder cars seating four) that the motorcycle industry is suffering from the competition. Unemployment in West Germany is so small that even a high official in the Labor Ministry in three months of searching could not find a domestic servant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Going Up | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

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