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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PARIS BURNING? by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre. The absorbing story of Hitler's determined, demented plot to blast the city of Paris to "a blackened field of ruins" rather than see it liberated. Following orders, General Dietrich von Choltitz went so far as to plant the explosives. But then he obeyed his conscience instead of his Fiihrer and delivered the city to the Allies...
...Ruhr coalfields to the ore of the Saar basin would give the victor economic hegemony over Europe. Today, the march of technology is revolutionizing the economics and geography of the world's most basic industry. From Tokyo to Naples, steelmen are moving to the sea, erecting new plants hundreds (and sometimes thousands) of miles from even the meagerest deposits of raw materials. Last week, in a move that emphasized this trend, West Germany's sixth largest steelmaker, Kloeckner-Werke, announced that it plans a $25 million expansion of its eight-year-old plant near Bremen...
...Germans are scurrying to catch up with other European steelmen; sea side plants already account for nearly 20% of the Common Market's steel production. France's Usinor opened a 1,500,000-ton mill at Dunkirk in 1963, and a consortium of Belgian and Luxembourg firms is busy building a 1,500,000-ton plant on the Ghent-Terneuzen Canal. Even Portugal has put up an efficient small works on the water at Seixal...
Prodded by this competition, 16 German steelmakers and The Netherlands' Hoogovens have joined forces to build a $60 million ore-concentrating plant, the first of its kind in Europe, at Rotterdam's Europoort industrial complex. By converting 15 million tons a year of ore from West Africa, South America, Canada and Scandinavia into 5,000,000 tons of concentrated pellets and barging it to inland mills, the combine expects to cut 20% off the cost of ore delivered to Ruhr furnaces. To keep their markets, the Germans feel they must put competitive prices ahead of national pride...
...workers to other assignments or put them on half-day shifts, but almost never fire them outright. Machines Bull-General Electric a month ago drew black headlines and angry cries of "Paris is not Arizona!" when it laid off 500 workers. When the U.S.-owned Beloit-Italia paper machinery plant near Turin tried to lay off 300 employees recently, workers invaded the factory in protest and occupied it for eleven days. They were fed through the fences by women and children, and the parish priest even came on Sunday to say Mass before the factory gate. What company wants...