Word: ruhr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MANY of the cover subjects added a fillip to their autographs. Alfred Krupp returned his signature with a note from his secretary saying that the Ruhr industrialist rarely gave his autograph, but was making an exception. J. Paul Getty, one of the world's richest men, wrote his name in pencil, and Kim Novak wrote, "Best wishes...
...requires that the two top offices may not be held by men of the same faith, Catholic Konrad Adenauer's successor will presumably be a Protestant. The three leading candidates: Vice Chancellor Erhard, 62; Gerstenmaier, 52; and Finance Minister Franz Etzel, 56. Of the three, Etzel, a colorless Ruhr corporation lawyer would be most apt to follow Adenauer's tutelage in foreign affairs unquestioningly. Because Gerstenmaier is ready to trade away Germany's NATO membership if it will buy reunification from the Russians, he is less likely to get the nomination. Erhard has never concealed that...
...getting men into occupied territory," Katz says, "but Germany was difficult. There weren't many Germans who wanted help, but our principal assistance came from the German practice of putting captured men to work as slave labor in Nazi factories. The roads were full of such people after the Ruhr bombardment, and we were able to get people in under cover as wandering unemployeds...
...unhappy exception in the generally flourishing economies of Western Europe is the coal glut; mountains of coal rise high alongside the smoking industrial chimneys. More than 14 million surplus tons clog Germany's Ruhr, and 20,000 miners have been laid off. Continued production at Belgium's notoriously uneconomic Borinage shafts (TIME, March 2) added to the stocks of 7,000,000 tons of coal already piled up in Belgium, so that, as one coal producer put it, "we literally have no more room anywhere to put the coal we produce which nobody will...
...gave the Christian Democrats, who can now count only a scant six-vote majority in the July electoral-college balloting, a presidential nominee able and popular enough to match the opposition Social Democrats' popular and widely known candidate, Bundestag Vice President Carlo Schmid. It also appeased Ruhr industrialists, who, because industrial production tumbled 8% in January-the sharpest drop in seven years-and because 14 million tons of unsold coal are piled up around Rhineland pits, long for protectionism and cartels, and cry for the removal of the man to whom they owe so much. They are now tired...