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Representatives of the Krupp and Stinnes interests and the German Steel Cartel gathered in Berlin last week to inaugurate the mighty project of warming all Germany with coal gas piped directly from the mines of the Ruhr. Shortly investors will be permitted to supply a preliminary stake...
...order to operate such long lines very high gas pressures will have to be used, pressures which hitherto have been unfeasible, due to impossibility of preventing leakage at the innumerable joints in a pipe several score miles long. Announcement was made however by the new syndicate, called the Ruhr Gas Co., that development of a new pipe welding process has made it possible to operate without undue leakage lines several hundred miles in length...
Unobtrusively, Junior Stinnes left the prison, went to Berlin's smartest Esplanade Hotel (owned by the Hugo Stinnes Corp.), journeyed thence to his home at Mulheim in the Ruhr valley. His trial for attempt to defraud the German Government (TIME, Sept. 24) will probably not take place until next year...
...fatal kidney attack (TIME, May 28). Telegrams, cables and flowers poured in, for Dr. Stresemann is the outstanding and most potent German statesman. He has held the Foreign Ministry while nine Cabinets have fallen. Previously, as Chancellor of the German Reich (1923), he wangled the French out of the Ruhr (which they had seized), and laid the German side of the foundations for the Dawes Plan. He was one of the Locarno Peace Pact signatories (TIME, Dec. 14, 1925); and he got Germany into the League (TIME, Sept. 13, 1926); and so he won the Nobel Peace Prize (TIME...
Fraulein Clairenore Stinnes, eldest daughter of Hugo Stinnes (late industrial lord of the German Ruhr), reached Peking, China, last week in an automobile which she had adventurously driven from Berlin across the Balkans, Turkey and Asiatic Russia (TIME, June 6). She will drive on "around the world" ferrying the Pacific and Atlantic...