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...minor customs official, Kohl was born on April 3 , 1930, in Ludwigshafen, an industrial city on the Rhine River. In the closing months of World War II, when the Third Reich was drafting teen-agers to fill depleted ranks of the depleted ranks of the Wehrmacht, the 15-year-old Kohl went through a basic training course in Bavaria. Advancing American troops brought his military career to an abrupt end. With only his tattered, ill-fitting uniform and not a pfennig to his name, Kohl made the 560-mile walk home to finish his schooling. Working part time...
...Rhine Valley, ostensibly to film historic castles. Rieger became suspicious when she noticed that the supposed "film crew" not only handled their equipment awkwardly but repeatedly insisted on flying over the Frankenthal prison, where three other notorious terrorists have been locked up. They also made extensive photographs of the Ludwigshafen home of Bundestag Opposition Leader Helmut Kohl...
...least known of the three major offshoots was a company called Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik. Like the two others, Bayer and Hoechst, B.A.S.F. proved to be a true heir to the vaunted Farben inventiveness and enterprise. It quickly rebuilt its bombed-out plants along the Rhine at Ludwigshafen, then spread out over 1,580 acres to develop Europe's largest single chemical complex. Now Europe's leading producer of raw materials for plastics and synthetic fibers, B.A.S.F. increased its sales by 18% to $940 million in 1964, a performance that makes it one of the world...
Room to Graze. B.A.S.F. has already outgrown Ludwigshafen, and its reach now extends far beyond the Rhine; 45% of sales, in fact, come from exports and foreign production. To expand foreign operations even more, B.A.S.F. has joined with Shell to build a fertilizer plant in Utrecht and an ammonia plant near Rotterdam, plans a $17.5 million polyethylene plant near Marseille. Last year it bought land in Antwerp for a $50 million factory that will produce fertilizer and synthetic fibers, and moved into Mexico by acquiring a local chemical firm. In the U.S., the company's biggest foreign customer, B.A.S.F...
...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...