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...north, in the Ruhr, driving along the Rhine at twilight, one sees the sky greyed with smoke from hundreds of factory chimneys. But just as one begins to marvel at the normal pace of the Ruhr's industrial life, one passes a great broken Rhine bridge whose gashed ends point aimlessly into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Faceless Crisis | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...breadbasket, and its agrarian economy has always been nicely sprinkled with small industry. Extremes of rich & poor have been less severe here than in Germany's industrial heart. War damage has been less grievous-bombs could not do to Bavarian farms what they did to Ruhr factories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Report from Munich | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...separatist dream of a South German state under the auspices of Paris: "Slice off southern Germany," he said, "and you surrender the north to the Soviets in the long run. You can't build a Paris-Munich-Vienna line without opening the way for a Moscow-Berlin-Ruhr line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Report from Munich | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...Handling of the Ruhr problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President and Politics | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

...Reimann's henchmen were fined $150 and $90 for holding a political meeting without a permit. When the day's hearings were over, Reimann was carried off in triumph by Reds who sang the Internationale and shouted: "Down with the Ruhr statute-down, down, down!" A rueful Briton admitted: "It looks as if the trial is backfiring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Do Your Best, Max! | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

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