Word: ruhr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his conservative coalition, which hoped thereby to prevent passage of a more drastic law. Mitbestimmungsrecht (literally, the right of code termination) is the word for Germany's new halfway house to socialism. Extending to all German industry the rules that have bound the Ruhr's steel mills and coal mines since 1947, it requires employers to give their workers a substantial share in all decisions affecting their business. The bill's provisions: ¶ In plants employing more than 500 workers, labor representatives will sit alongside management and stockholder representatives on the board...
...North Korean power plants which supply not only 90% of all power for Communist North Korea, but also power for Communist Manchuria. The principal target was the great Suiho power project on the south bank of the Yalu, keystone of the hydroelectric development which pipes electricity to the Chinese "Ruhr" in Manchuria, to Soviet bases in Port Arthur and Dairen, and to the Russian port of Vladivostok. It lies only 3,000 ft. from Manchurian soil. The bombers spared giant Suiho Dam itself...
...learned in my life that compromise with the property-owning class is also impossible," was Schumacher's unanswering answer. He believes that the Russians, knowing they would lose East Germany in any free election, might be willing to lose it in return for a united, neutral Germany whose Ruhr industries sell impartially to the East & West. Germany would probably then have to give up its participation in the European Army; Schumacher is quite willing to. America's atomic bomb is deterrent enough to hold off the Russians, he says. This line of argument is highly persuasive-to Germans...
...again somewhat too sharp." His byword, they insist, is not nein, but ja, aber so nicht-which means "yes, but not this way." Schumacher himself professes to be hurt that the West misunderstands him so. Can't they see that his party is pure, and that the big Ruhr industrialists who once helped Hitler are the men behind Adenauer? He is convinced that the allies favored Adenauer because he is more tractable and conservative: What can you expect of the Wall Street lawyers and bankers who have run the occupation? "I wouldn't be a pleasant bedfellow...
Industry: Red China's Ruhr is a small triangle in the center of Manchuria, formed by Mukden, Anshan and Fushun. Under Japanese occupation (1931-45) it became perhaps the greatest industrial complex Asia had ever known. Then the Russians expertly looted it: steel plants with a 1,500,000-ton capacity were left with enough machinery for 500,000 tons; the big generators at the Sungari Dam, which fed power to the Mukden area, were carted...