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...clearly being rewarded for providing Adenauer with his best election issue. The coincidental fact that he is Protestant would also restore the Catholic-Protestant balance in the government. As the new Finance Minister, Adenauer named Franz Etzel, hitherto vice chairman of the European Coal and Steel Authority at Luxembourg, who is expected to work with Erhard far more cooperatively than Schäffer ever...
...staid Franconian upbringing. Though he now wears glossily tailored blue suits, their lapels are usually sprinkled with ashes. His youngest daughter is married to a Daimler-Benz executive. The son-in-law used to work for the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community in Luxembourg, but Erhard nagged .so persistently that a young man belonged not in a deadening bureaucracy but in "competitive private enterprise" that he finally changed jobs. "Germany has substituted the commercial man for the bureaucrat," proclaims Erhard...
Last week Erhard appealed to the six-nation European Coal and Steel Community at Luxembourg to withhold approval of the Ruhr coal-price hike. To back up the appeal, Erhard wheeled up his biggest price-defense weapon-his power to let more competing imports into the country. As a starter, he ordered his ministry to prepare schemes to slash rail freights on foreign oil and U.S. coal. At week's end the coalmen were still holding their prices up, and Erhard was stubbornly getting ready to fire the gun of low-priced imports that always in the past...
Family Friends. At one time, Ma could be heard the same day on the full NBC and CBS networks, in Hawaii, Canada, and across Europe via Radio Luxembourg. Since 1933 she has brought in about $11 million in network time charges, helped Procter & Gamble sell 3 billion boxes of Oxydol (to get clothes "whiter than sun-white''). Last year Ma was leased to other sponsors, e.g., Lever Bros. (Spry for "nongreasy donuts") and Lipton ("new Flo-Thru Tea Bags"), but P.&G. refused to sell her outright...
When the Allies captured Radio Luxembourg. Orr found out the secret: the Germans were using a "Magnetophon"' recorder with a magnetic tape far superior to familiar paper tapes or wire. The recording of a speech by Hitler was erased from a captured tape and a speech of Ike's recorded on the same tape for rebroadcasting. But the erasure was muffed and, in the middle of Ike's talk. Hitler's voice broke in loudly. Orders quickly came to manufacture some new tape. Orr tracked down Dr. Fritz Pflaumer, who had developed the original magnetic tape...