Word: schroders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real hostilities, however, were in the reviewing stand. There stood a bristling Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and his angry Defense Minister, Gerhard Schroder. In a split that has ended eight months of harmony in the coalition Cabinet, Kiesinger and Schröder, both Christian Democrats, were embattled over projected cuts in West Germany's defense budget...
...years, but Kiesinger's Cabinet, worried about the economic slowdown in West Germany, two weeks ago decided to cut military expansion plans by about 25%. When a jet passed low over the Palais Schaumburg, in which the Cabinet was meeting, Interior Minister Paul Lücke cracked: "Schroder is calling out his Starfighters against us." Schroder was not amused. "No," he replied icily, "that must be the Americans pulling...
Holding a Grudge. Kiesinger was furious. He went on TV to disavow Schroder, saying that "the Cabinet has by no means decided to cut the troop strength of the Bundeswehr to a considerable de gree, let alone by 60,000 men." While overall cutbacks will be made in projected defense budgets through 1971, he said, the defense budget for the next four years will actually be larger than at present. Kiesinger was joined by Finance Minister Franz Josef Strauss, who holds a grudge against...
...Schroder for fingering him, when Schroder was Foreign Minister, as the man who ordered the arrest of an edi tor in the 1962 Der Spiegel scandal. The ambitious Strauss, who aims at the chancellorship for himself one day and sees Schroder as a rival, accused Schroder of misleading the German public with "lies and deliberate propaganda...
...version was created in the Stout Metal Airplane Co. (which Ford partly owned) by mongrelizing a single-engined plane, the "Stout Air Pullman." Only one of these bulbous-nosed trimotors was made flyable, and it was flown only once. Immediately after its hair-raising test flight, the pilot, Shorty Schroder, went to Ford and for several hours heatedly described its ungainliness and capricious lift characteristics. The next day Ford bought Stout's company...