Word: mannheim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Richard Strauss completed his last opera, Capriccio, in 1941. but the world that he and co-Librettist Clemens Kraus invoked in their "conversation piece for music" was as remote in spirit from the chaos of a Bremen or a Mannheim as Strauss's Bavarian mountain retreat was from the final convulsions of the Third Reich. The subject is opera itself-the relative merits of words and music-and it might just as aptly have been summed up under the title Six Characters in Search of an Opera. In a rococo salon near Paris, the six main figures sit chatting...
This was not what happened four years ago when the "opera" had its first stage performance in Mannheim. Then the audience reacted wildly almost as soon as the curtain rose. Emitting open vowel sounds, the tenor sang: "AUAUAUAUAU a U A U." Outdoing him, the bass boomed, "U UE U UE," only to be interrupted by a chorus which periodically burst out with "Agatta-Gatta-Gatta." These sounds so unnerved the Mannheim audience that it responded with heartfelt "pfuis!", and an incensed reviewer described it as possibly "the worst opera ever written." By contrast, some Berlin spectators last week...
Divesting the Dismantler. Völklingen, the Saar's biggest single industrial operation, is the base of the Röchlings' 250-year-old empire, which spills into West Germany with a coal field near Aachen, a steel business at Mannheim, an iron works at Wetzlar. The family's real rise to power began under sword-scarred Hermann Röchling, prime mover of the Saar's vast industrial buildup of the early 1900s. As a war mobilizer in the Kaiser's army in World War I, Captain Röchling ordered the scrapping...
...tourists to be "ambassadors of good will" and, you say, realizes that Americans do not endear themselves to foreigners by spending money. Yet he rollicks through Germany and Italy in a plush, private railway car, and tries to prime the British economy with his lavish gratuities. MAURICE H. OPPENHEIM Mannheim, Germany...