Word: ruhr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grabbed in the piping days of the Nazi-Soviet Pact. As compensation, Stalin proposed to give the Poles large chunks of the provinces of East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia-all in all, some 38,660 sq. mi. of former German territory, including coal deposits richer than those of the Ruhr...
...candor of the man for whom no one else can possibly speak. His big difference is with one of his warmest friends: Eisenhower-"a very great human being." Monty insists that after the breakthrough in Normandy he could have won the war with a smashing left hook to the Ruhr. Ike preferred a long front along which the enemy would be smashed at all points. It is this difference and Monty's argument for his point of view that make his Memoirs historically important. Certainly no one can now quarrel with his insistence that the British and U.S. armies...
...them are students who go by bicycle, motorcycle or hitchhike, and often camp out. Another 60% are the middleclass, ranging from teachers to small businessmen, who travel by car, railroad or bus and live in small hotels and boarding houses. The remaining 10% are the wealthy, the Ruhr industrialists and Frankfurt bankers, who make their rounds with expensive movie cameras, stay in the palace hotels, demand the best and are willing to pay for it. They are even more visible than Americans. The French Riviera, Spain's Costa Brava and the Balearic Islands no longer satisfy the German wanderlust...
...years, it is still only 2.6% of total U.K. exports. In a more realistic vein, the London Times warned: "When the Communists talk about increasing trade, they are as often concerned with the political effect of their words as with any goods they may want to buy." Added a Ruhr industrialist: "The demand for Russian caviar is not unlimited in Germany, and it is not always easy to obtain other goods for which we might have better...
...industrial, is gradually increasing its trade in land for industrial purposes. Tysen is negotiating with Belgian government officials about industrial development of the Inga Rapids area of the Congo River, a vast, water-rich slice of the Belgian Congo (TIME, Nov. 25) which engineers fondly describe as "the Ruhr of the 21st century." Tysen will also shop around for three kings interested in plush homes, has hunting licenses for land for a British firm that wants to build 700-room luxury hotels in Lisbon and Vienna, a U.S. hotel chain interested in London...