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Complete closure of German industry is out of the question. The people of the industrial Ruhr cannot live without their steel plants and coal mines. And the rest of Europe cannot live without the coal which the Ruhr produces...
...Endless Chain. Reparations aside, the economy of Europe rests on the Ruhr's coal. If Ruhr coal is not mined in immense quantities, France and Belgium cannot rapidly rebuild their economies. Starvation in the Ruhr will not produce coal. The policy which many a coal expert is now considering is just the opposite: make the life of the coal miner so pleasant, with plenty of food, clothing and a comfortable home, that he will have the energy and incentive to mine the coal needed. (High wages are almost meaningless in Germany today...
...Yorker hurriedly unloaded the last of its anecdotes on the maid shortage. Soon A-card holders would get more gasoline; by the end of the year there would even be a few new cars. The battle for Okinawa, begun three weeks before the final collapse of the Ruhr pocket, flared hotter than ever...
...matter of the kid . . . who died on a jeep in the Ruhr...
Moreover, the machine shop of Europe was shut down. The Ruhr had received 150 tons of bombs per square mile. (Battered London averaged only twelve...