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Good Emil. His German air force training started with ill-fitting uniforms and clodhopper boots, loneliness, the desire to "bash [the NCO] over the head with a rifle butt," the eternally drummed-in theme: "You have got to be tough as Krupp's steel...
...Delhi last week, Indian government officials pored over plans for a $150 million steel mill. Both Britons and Americans had wanted to build it, but lost out in the bidding. The winner: a group headed by Germany's famed old munitions maker, Krupp. In the busy Brazilian cities of Rio and São Paulo, bars were crowded with German businessmen speaking painfully correct Portuguese, while not far away another huge steel plant was being built by Germans. In Mexico, University City bustled with preparations for Germany's first big Latin American trade exposition since...
Many of the oldtimers, e.g., Krupp and Ernst Leitz (Leica cameras), are also back in business. Some units of the old I.G. Farben chemical combine, broken up after the war, are bigger than ever. And while the old cartels have been officially banned, price-fixing and trade agreements still play an important part in the German economy. A strong movement is afoot to legalize cartels again, despite the opposition of Economics Minister Erhard and the evidence of how free competition rebuilt the country...
WEST Germany had new evidence of economic recovery (see FOREIGN NEWS). Friedrich Krupp & Co., and Demag, a big machinery maker, got the order to build a $150 million steel mill in India that will produce one-fourth of India's total steel output. The North German Lloyd line late this year will launch the first of six 10,000-ton passenger and cargo ships to go into service between Germany and the Far East, and Germany's C. C. Deilmann has won the exclusive rights to explore and drill for oil in Yemen...
WEST Germany's Krupp-controlled Stahlbau (steel construction company) Rheinhausen is negotiating with the Turkish government to build a $65 million, ¾-mile-long bridge across the Bosporus at Istanbul. Next to San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, it would be the world's longest span...