Word: ruhr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building roadblocks on the approaches to target cities, notably Hamburg, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen. Policemen careened through the streets, sirens screaming, arrested 500 known Communist leaders as a preventive measure. The British called their Fourth Guards Brigade back from maneuvers to stand by for disorders in the Ruhr...
Vast expansion of defense outlays here and in Europe is already having and will continue to have a favorable effect upon the Germany economy. Even though the Ruhr will not make new guns, it will provide the steel for new guns and consumer for engineering products and consumer goods from the Ruhr will remain high. So reported John K. Galbraith, lecturer in Economics, who spent time in Germany this summer...
...such windfall as the Remagen bridgehead fell into Walker's lap, but he crossed the Rhine at Mainz without fanfare, in assault boats. After that, the XX Corps' hardest fighting was at Kassel, where the Germans fought wildly and vainly to prevent Allied encirclement of the Ruhr. The Reich's back was broken and the rest of the XX Corps' progress, though not bloodless, was relatively easy. After Weimar, Jena, Nurnberg, Regensburg, Walker in early May reached Linz, in Austria, the farthest point of the Third Army's advance...
...state's electorate was also voting on a proposed new constitution whose most important articles were 1) the right of parents to send their children to denominational schools; 2) socialization of certain "monopolistic" Ruhr industries. By week's end it seemed probable that the new constitution had been adopted, but the Christian Democrats could be expected to do their best to delay actual nationalization of the plants...
...meeting in Düsseldorf of the French-German Friendship Society attended by more than 100 powerful Ruhr industrialists, McCloy predicted a bright future for the Ruhr and all Western Germany as part of a united Western Europe. But he added that the free world was watching to see whether Germany would continue on the right path. It was during the question period, following his calm, factual address, that trouble started. Led by Theodor Goldschmidt, president of Essen's Chamber of Commerce, a group of Germans began firing complaints about high occupation costs, high taxes, the costly burden...