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...these came from the great Ruhr basin. The western European steel industry depended on Ruhr coke; Dutch and Belgian ports depended on Ruhr traffic. In a single year the Ruhr produced 128,000,000 tons of coal, 16,000,000 tons of steel, 13,000,000 tons of pig iron. War-ravaged Britain Had neither the food nor the money for quick restoration of the Ruhr's industrial complex...
...rage. He had reason to hate the men who had been on top in Germany, and "among the masses I found scorn, mockery, fear, oppression, falsehood, betrayal, lies and filth-in abundance." In beaten Germany he found an abundance of subjects, drew thousands of dagger-sharp drawings of pig-faced whores, vulpine businessmen, phthisical Army officers with eroding marble jaws, laborers coughing blood, and clerks sobbing on their knees. His graphic "No" to postwar Germany made Grosz a lion overnight...
...newspapers that signed up for Milton Caniff's new comic strip were buying a pig in a poke. But publishers, who don't buy comics for the fun of it, were sure that it would be a prize porker. They felt certain that the man who made Terry and the Pirates, the best drawn U.S. comic strip, could do it again. Last week Caniff finally told them a little about his new comic (to start Jan. 13): it would be called Steve Canyon and "it isn't a kid's strip...
...national convention of 45 members to see if they should carry on with a British-appointed commission as the ruling body, or if it was time for a change. When the convention met, a fortnight ago, Delegate Joseph Smallwood, 46, who had turned from writing to farming and from pig raising to politics, came out flatly for confederation. He proposed that the convention send a delegation to Ottawa at once to ask for terms. It was just like old times. Delegate Kenneth Brown, president of the Fishermen's Protective Union, jumped to his feet, roared his opposition with such...
Beatrix (pronounced Beatrice) never went to school, rarely saw other children. She had one black doll named Topsy, and on special occasions she was allowed to play with a stuffed pig...