Word: ruhr
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...side of the West within the straitjacket of a European Defense Community-had risen from its supposed deathbed. Büro Blank, the embryonic Defense Ministry of West Germany, casually let it be known that 105,000 volunteers are ready to don European Army uniforms; to prove that the Ruhr can arm them (a point that has been proved before), German industrialists staged an impressive display of military trucks and signals equipment.* Another German group even offered to show France how to build homes more quickly...
...Russia's Czar Alexander III). The 150-room Park Hotel became a billet for victorious U.S. Army brass (including Generals Dwight Eisenhower and Lucius Clay) after World War II, last year returned to Ritter's control, became a resort for West Germany's newest royalty: Ruhr industrialists and movie stars...
...policemen's iron heels clicked in unison and the old man, with no smile, lowered himself into the cushions of the big Mercedes. The convoy moved off, purring through vineyards and pine woods until it came to the Autobahn and merged with the traffic flowing towards the Ruhr...
Last week the Ruhr's industrial workers were returning from paid vacations. Half a million Germans traveled outside their country in the first six months of 1953, many of them in the humpbacked little Volkswagen that are driving British cars off Central Europe's roads. Millions more camped by picture-postcard rivers or along the Baltic shores. Germans pointed Leicas at Rome's Colosseum, Istanbul's bazaars, Granada's Alhambra. Their wives thumbed the lingerie in the Faubourg St. Honoré, where Parisian shopkeepers endured the hated language for the sake of the Deutsche mark...
...will be no pushover. Among the ten congressional members (total membership: 17) are some of the most powerful anti-free traders in Congress, e.g., Republican Congressmen Dan Reed and Richard Simpson, G.O.P. Senators Bourke Hickenlooper and Eugene Millikin, men who still think the Ruhr is just as far from Chicago as Timbuktu...