Word: ruhr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...locale was North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state in West Germany and, with its vast Rhine-Ruhr coal-and-steel complex, the industrial heartland of the nation. The state's 17 million inhabitants represent fully a third of the West German electorate, and exercise a political power that in U.S. terms would equal California's and New York's combined. Heavily Catholic, the region has traditionally given wide majorities to Erhard's Christian Democratic Union. Hence the surprise last week when, in the state's first election since 1962, Willy Brandt's Social...
...burning determination glowed through all of Carpenter's performances at the Point. Everyone he knew was aware of the reason behind it. During World War II, when Bill Carpenter was seven, his father-a private in the 9th Infantry Division-died during the fighting in the Ruhr. Says Bill's pretty wife Toni: "He wants to carry on where his father left...
Europe's coal miners, who are as politically potent and as well protected as America's farmers, are in a querulous mood. In past months, miners have staged angry protest marches in Germany's Ruhr and battled against truncheon-swinging police in Belgium (toll: two dead). Behind this unrest is an upheaval in the sources of energy that are at the root of Europe's economic strength. As it has in the U.S., coal is losing its primacy to gas, oil and nuclear energy. The result is fewer jobs for miners but more opportunities for those...
...last November, nine men wearing identical wide-brim hats and ankle-length overcoats, and carrying identical canvas bags, stepped off a plane in Düsseldorf and settled into a hotel in Duisburg in the industrial Ruhr...
Flushing Salt Out. Martini is sure that his plan has great potential, especially for Germany. Just north of the Ruhr industrial complex, where peak power needs are acute, there are many abandoned salt and potash mines, plus some 200 enormous salt domes between 150 ft. and 6,000 ft. below the surface. When all of the available mines have been filled with compressed air, Martini says, salt can be flushed out of the domes with water, giving the Ruhr natural reservoirs with a vast capacity for storing electrical power...