Word: ludwigshafen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Close behind Bayer among the Farben heirs is Badische Anilin-und Soda-Fabrik (B.A.S.F.) of Ludwigshafen, with sales of $357 million from chemicals, plastics, dyes, fertilizers, insecticides. Worst damaged of the big three, B.A.S.F. saw its Rhineside plant at Ludwigshafen 45% bombed out, started up again in 1945 with only 800 workers. Today the smoky, sprawling plant is Western Europe's biggest chemical unit with 36,600 workers. B.A.S.F. also employs 11,000 at its Auguste-Victoria coal mine in the Ruhr. Masterminding B.A.S.F.'s comeback is its wartime head, Chairman Carl Wurster, 56, who was acquitted...