Word: ruhr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years Paul Reynaud's Jeremiah-like prophecies of doom have earned him hatred from the Left and suspicion from the Right. In 1923 he pleaded for an understanding with Germany and opposed the French occupation of the Ruhr. An antiCommunist, he has long urged closer trade relations with Russia. Last September, before he switched from the Ministry of Justice to Finance, he almost broke up the Daladier Cabinet by his opposition to Appeasement...
...hand. In coal and steel production War-time Germany held up, partly because of the capture of Belgian and French mines and blast furnaces. But the immense capacity of Pittsburgh, made available to the Allies even before the United States' entry into the war, easily beat down the Ruhr and the German State lost its first...
They were the years in which German steel production approached its pre-War level; Germany's merchant marine climbed from 400,000 to 3,700,000 tons. They were the years in which France stabilized her currency, recovering from the post-Ruhr crisis that swept six ministries out of office in 15 months. They were the years when Edward, Prince of Wales, was known as the Empire's greatest salesman. And though England was laboring with an unemployment problem and China was torn by internal revolt, advocates of international cooperation flourished in the capitals of Europe as trade...
...sometime or other in his life has to fulfill a mission." But because Herta is too intellectual, and "woman's task is to be beautiful and to bring children into the world," they separate. Michael writes his play, is rebuffed by Munich intellectuals, becomes a miner in the Ruhr. Then the book really gets creepy. A mysterious Russian, Iwan, appears, tempts Michael, is defeated ("I am stronger than he. I take him by the throat. I dash him to the ground"), and after making some political observations, Michael dies, murmuring "worker...
...through the last 50 years such a Mittelland waterway has been dreamed of by pan-Germans, opposed by jealous pre-War German States. But last week when the last ditch, connecting Brunswick and Magdeburg, was officially opened up, no German raised his voice against it. Fear that Ruhr coal might start moving into markets supplied by Upper Silesia was quelled by a pfennig-per-ton-per-kilometer extra canal fee between Magdeburg and Hanover...