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During his eight-year reign, Karamanlis had, as he said, "transformed Greece from an Oriental village to a European country." He brought the nation into the Common Market as an as sociate member, built dams and roads. On the average, manufacturing has grown an impressive 8% annually in the past...
These days, most German youths do not have to go journeying for jobs. Big German companies pride themselves on the size and thoroughness of their apprentice programs. Siemens has 180 special instructors for its 6,300 apprentices. Daimler-Benz, whose founder Gottlieb Daimler rose from the apprentice ranks, has a...
White-Collar Yearnings. Under German law, an apprentice may work only 36 hours a week, must spend an additional eight hours weekly studying technical or liberal arts subjects. The pay is a low $15 to $40 monthly, but the company usually provides for board and lodging if the apprentice is...
The central concentration of Japanese industry is in Brazil, to which sizable numbers of Japanese farmers have been emigrating since 1908, notably to Sao Paulo. The Japanese in Brazil control 67 firms ranging into insurance, banking, cement, glass and machinery. The Japanese-run Ishikawajima shipyard is working on its seventh...
Controls & Ceilings. As Europe's economies get stronger, their demands on the U.S. capital market steadily mount. Last year European countries borrowed nearly twice as much in the U.S. as they did from one another. The French South European Pipeline Company raised $40 million; Holland's Philips Lamp...