Word: ruhr
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...books, paintings and plays of social protest, the Ruhr Valley was long pictured as a brutally black furnace of heavy industry, as ugly as the coalpits on which it is built. It has also been presented as a land populated by gaunt miners and ruled ruthlessly by a wealthy elite of powerful iron and war mongers. At various times the Ruhr indeed may have fitted these descriptions, but things have changed. "That is the legend of the Ruhr," says Gerhard Kienbaum, economics minister of West Germany's state of North Rhine-Westphalia. "Today it corresponds to reality about...
...reality of the Ruhr has just been made plain in a startling request advanced in Brussels by the region's political leaders. They asked the Common Market for economic aid. The world's greatest industrial workshop now seeks help because it is fighting to change, modernize and revitalize its whole economy...
...sale later this month in 422 selected Buick showrooms will go a newcomer that has already proved its mettle in Germany. The car: the Opel Kadett, a compact made by General Motors' German subsidiary in a new $250 million plant in the Ruhr, which G.M. feels will be more profitable if it produces at a higher volume. The Kadett's good looks have already dented Volkswagen's sales in Germany (TIME, Nov. 29), and G.M. hopes that the same thing will happen in the U.S. The company sold Opels through Buick once before, but dropped them...
Hugo Stinnes-usually referred to as der Junior in German headlines-is the son of the famous Ruhr industrial baron who died in 1924, leaving his empire to be run by his wife and two sons. Hugo worked with his mother and brother Otto to rebuild the Stinnes holdings after World War II, but did not get along with his kinfolk. He set out to build an industrial complex of his own, calling one of his two holding firms "Hugo Stinnes Personally Inc." to show his independence to the world. But Hugo depended too much on the memory...
Psychologically In. The businessmen have continued to raise their production schedules. Despite the most disastrous winter in recorded European history, the Common Market is growing exuberantly at more than 4% for the second straight year. Says one top Ruhr industrialist: "Though the vetoing of Britain was a deep and painful psychological shock, it has had no direct effect on our business." Nor has it affected Europe's tariff-cutting schedule. European governments in July, without fuss or furore, cut tariffs among their countries another 10%, bringing the total tariff reduction to 60% since the Common Market began...