Word: ladenburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 sent agents out to hire them. After a Swiss-owned electrical plant at Ladenburg burned down, competitors in Mannheim and Ludwigshafen rushed to the workers' homes with job offers before the ashes cooled...