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...firms as Shell and British Petroleum. Where coal-based chemical plants once belched out dark and noisome fumes, modern petrochemical factories now cleanly crack oil into hundreds of new chemicals. A company called Chemische Werke Hüls has built the Ruhr's biggest synthetic rubber plant, and Mulheim's Chemist Karl Ziegler last year won a Nobel Prize for developing methods to produce plastics from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: The Changing Ruhr | 1/31/1964 | See Source »

...1860s August Thyssen (pronounced tissen) started his steel business in a cow house outside Mulheim, in the Ruhr Valley, making hoop-iron at first. In 50 years he came to own coal fields in the Ruhr and iron-ore concessions in Lorraine and Northern France, and to employ 25,000 workers. When he died in 1926 at 84 he left an estate worth more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Daddy's End | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Asked when he committed his first murder, Kuerten said reminiscently, "Just before the War, in 1913 at Mulheim near Cologne. I had entered a house to rob, but I found a little girl there asleep.* I forgot my intention of stealing as a blood lust came over me for the first time. I strangled her. Then I cut her throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Nine-Lived Fiend | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

Unobtrusively, Junior Stinnes left the prison, went to Berlin's smartest Esplanade Hotel (owned by the Hugo Stinnes Corp.), journeyed thence to his home at Mulheim in the Ruhr valley. His trial for attempt to defraud the German Government (TIME, Sept. 24) will probably not take place until next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Bail | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

Synthol. Professor Franz Fischer of Mulheim-Ruhr takes this same wood alcohol and builds up a petroleum-like fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Coal Pokers | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

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