Word: ruhr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...construction workers by paying wages 20% higher than their salaries back home. Nor do the West Germans stop searching for manpower at the frontiers of Europe. This month Bonn captured the record for long-distance hiring by welcoming the vanguard of 700 Japanese miners who will dig in the Ruhr coal fields...
...first, the Von Kessens seem to Augustine merely odd. They shoot foxes, and twin children are punished by being dog-chained to the castle wall. Uncle Otto broods about the defeat of the German army and the insolence of the Red militiamen roaming the Ruhr. His young cousin Franz speculates on the nature of politics and violence with a mystical intensity that shocks the rationalistic Englishman. There is a pet fox in the attic. Also in the attic, though Augustine does not know it, is a young, half-crazed fanatic sought by the police as a member of a proto...
...rebuild Germany into NATO in a fashion acceptable to France, thrice attacked by German armies in the last hundred years? It was Jean Monnet, then directing France's postwar economic recovery, who found the answer: to pool the coal and steel resources of France and Germany-the Ruhr, the Saar, Lorraine, over which so many Franco-German conflicts had erupted-under a supranational authority...
...Germany. "Clearly, Berlin is the main prize," Ike answered. He added that a slower, "broad front" advance would better accomplish the Allies' main object: destroying Germany's military strength. By moving en masse, the AEF would thus be able to seize the industrial heart of Germany (the Ruhr) before striking at its political heart (Berlin...
...leadership embraces former Nazis, old-school German liberals, and a group with the sinister-sounding name, "technicians of power." In less than two years as its chairman, Mende has not only kept the party's fractious left wing in line but has also won heavy backing from the Ruhr's ultraconservative industrialists...