Word: luxembourger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question, since Litchfield's arch rival, Goodrich, already had a plant there. So was Belgium, which has two tire plants of its own. With the doleful expression of a jilted suitor, Rubberman Litchfield turned his eyes to the tiny (pop. 300,000) Grand Duchy of Luxembourg...
Since liberation, Luxembourg's sturdy little economy-closely linked with Belgium and The Netherlands-had bounced back faster than many of its bigger neighbors. Its man-hour productivity was one of the highest on the continent (citizens could hardly remember the last bad strike); its currency, like Belgium's, was freely convertible into dollars. Because trade barriers in the Benelux nations are being broken down, Goodyear could produce in Luxembourg and still sell in Belgium and The Netherlands. The job was to convince Luxembourg that it needed a U.S.-owned tire plant...
...plant started buying such Benelux raw materials as rubber from the Belgian Congo and the former Netherlands East Indies, and rayon and cotton cord from Belgium and The Netherlands. Another potent argument was the undisclosed sum Goodyear offered for a 45-acre site 18 miles north of Luxembourg City, the duchy's capital. The land belonged to Grand Duchess Charlotte herself. Last fall she agreed to sell...
...Roberts. Atlantic Union was a lineal descendant of Union Now, founded and expounded by Clarence Streit, longtime crusader for a union of free peoples. Its blueprint envisioned a political, military and economic federation of the original seven North Atlantic Treaty nations (U.S., Canada, Britain, France, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg...
...London last week, 20 diplomats and television experts from Britain, France, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg tried to agree on uniform TV standards for Western Europe. After two days of polite wrangling they decided to try again next month in Paris...