Word: ruhr
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Construct a permanent Canadian army base at Soest, on the edge of the Ruhr...
...Ruhr has a capacity of 15 million tons a year, but the allies, remembering Hitler, hold down Ruhr production to 11,100,000 tons for domestic use and export. Recently, the August-Thyssen Huette Steel Works asked permission to increase production from 117,000 to 1,000,000 tons. Last week a joint U.S.British-French board turned Thyssen down. The Germans were baffled. Does the West need the Ruhr badly enough to run the risks of its revival? By seeking West German participation in NATO, the West had implicity decided that it does. The answer no longer seemed so clear...
...rolling green hills of Bavaria, there is a throb and a hum. On the wide, sweeping autobahns there are more cars than ever before in German history. Building of houses is up to America's boom-time rate. Once shattered and chilled by Allied bombs, the Ruhr's blast furnaces this week were hot and glowing, reddening the night sky with a dramatic picture of economic resurgence...
WILLY HERMANN SCHLIEKER is the outstanding example of this type. Only 37, Schlieker is one of the Ruhr's ablest, richest (total 1950 business: $24 million) operators in the steel business. Son of a poor Hamburg ship fitter, he started work at 16 as an SS typist, joined the Nazi Party in 1941. He has twice reorganized the German steel industry: once for Hitler's war production boss, Albert Speer, later for the Allies. With similar impartiality, he shipped $12 million worth of goods to the Soviets in 1949-50. Then, when Bonn clamped down on this trade...
...drawn up in Germany during 1950. Providing for one-man control over a joint officer corps from France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the occupation powers, the Petersburg formula set a limit of 250,000 troops to be trained by an international staff. It also suggested that the Ruhr produce war materials, under joint Allied supervision...