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...prospects, plus the likelihood of bumper crops in Argentina and Australia, were already discernible in the break in the U.S. grain market (see BUSINESS). Europe's industry was benefiting in healthier, happier workers. With less coal going into family stoves, there was more for factory furnaces. In the Ruhr, absenteeism was down to three-fifths of last year's mark...
...Ruhr coal was coming out of the ground at a postwar record of 254,000 tons daily; aside from food imports, Bizonia had a favorable trade balance during the past year...
While Clay spoke Germany was shaken by the biggest strikes since pre-Hitler days. The walkouts protesting food shortages, which had started in the Ruhr (TIME, Jan. 26), shifted to Bavaria; more than a million Germans in 26 cities and scores of towns laid down their tools...
...Here." Still others thought that Protocol M might be anything from a screwball's fraud to a war cry of a group of Communists who were demanding more action by their party. Certainly, there was not much evidence of Communist inspiration in the Ruhr walkouts as yet. But the winter was still young...
...sseldorf, German officials from other bizonal states agreed to divert part of their meat and fats to the Ruhr next month. If it worked, Ruhr tension would be eased. But what about the other Western Germans, plenty of whom were having thin scrabbling (see cut)? Was divvying up the rations just another way of divvying discontent? In London, Ernie Bevin sent an urgent personal note to George Marshall warning that German hunger and unrest would likely grow worse. And there were other tensions...