Word: ruhr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take all the dossiers out of the drawer," said Mendès. He began that afternoon with hope. He spoke of a Moselle canal to link Lorraine's economy with the Ruhr, of a Rhone canal to open the Mediterranean to Germany, of joint arms plants, of joint German-French companies to develop France's North African territories. The Saar, Mendès indicated, could be just a small item in a new, sweeping Franco-German era of partnership...
Ruins in the Ruhr. The strength-and the weakness-of Author Faviell's book is that it is written by a sensitive foreigner who was touched by Berlin's sorrow without fully sharing it. Heinrich Böll, by contrast, knows the inwardness of his people's sorrow-and only the inwardness. In Acquainted with the Night, Author Böll plucks three days from the life of Fred Bogner, a switchboard operator who has been drifting through the ruins of the Ruhr, drinking and playing pinball ever since he returned from the Russian front...
...picture of the Ruhr reeks of human ruin. Its smells jar the senses; its sounds are grotesque. Böll writes with simple beauty, but often he treats despair with that detailed evenness that the dull st of The New Yorker writers apply to domestic crises in suburban Connecticut. And sometimes Author Böll's sense of the macabre runs amuck. As Kate tells Fred that she is pregnant again, the druggists outside the hotel are applauding a flight of small planes that drop contraceptive ads followed by red rubber toy storks with broken necks...
...Hamburg (pop. 1,600,000), a strike of 13,000 transport and utilities workers left West Germany's largest city without gas, water, buses and streetcars for nine days. In Bavaria, 130,000 metal workers downed tools. Nine hundred thousand Ruhr metal workers demanded a 10-pfennig (2.5?) hourly increase...
They let it be known that if France did not soon take action on EDC, they would see that West Germany got its sovereignty without EDC. Adenauer told his Ruhr audiences: "We have a right to sovereignty. Through nine years of probation, we have proved ourselves reliable. We have shown that we will go with the West...