Word: ruhr
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cost of some $130 million the German government, the RheinischWestfalisches Power Co., and France will build a canal on the Moselle connecting France's Lorraine mines and mills with the Ruhr and export markets...
...collection of color photographs taken in the U.S. for illustrations. His pictures of rural and urban America, with its growing population at work and enjoying its new leisure, gave a quick but comprehensive review of the nation's burgeoning market. In" nine cities scattered through the Rhineland, the Ruhr and northwest Germany, industrialists and businessmen found it a fascinating report. After seeing it first in Frankfurt, business leaders asked for copies of the color slides for showings in every Chamber of Commerce in West Germany...
They chose to strike against him not in the federal Bundestag, where they are outnumbered 251 to 48 by Adenauer's Christian Democrats. Instead they organized a revolt in the provincial legislature of North Rhine-Westphalia, which contains the rich Ruhr. Free Democrats made a deal with the opposition Social Democrats, with whom they otherwise had nothing in common, to overthrow able Christian Democrat Karl Arnold, the Minister Pres ident (governor) of North Rhine-Westphalia. They had nothing but admiration for Arnold and said so; they were simply out to get at Konrad Adenauer in Bonn. By a vote...
Five leading West German industrialists left today on a six-week good will mission to Far Eastern countries. Tomorrow, Alfred Krupp, head of the vast Ruhr concern, departs for a tour of India, Pakistan, Thailand, and Egypt...
...they found much more in the files they seized: papers showed how the dismissed Reds had been pressuring ex-Reds among union members to rejoin the party, had maintained illegal contacts with organizations in Russia and East Germany, were planning a Communist-sponsored building-workers' conference in the Ruhr, were using union funds to promote Red aims...