Word: solingen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...branch store, for example, because quality controls could not be maintained. Such elevated standards recently led TV Chef Julia Child to pronounce the Bridge company "reasonable, personal and full of things you just can't get anywhere else." Many of those things are devices that Bridge designs. Solingen steelmakers in Germany produce his oversize all-purpose kitchen knife. Marble quarries in Carrara, Italy, supply him with the special slabs that he specifies for kneading dough. A French factory manufactures his unique upright asparagus cooker. These bestsellers are delivered-and sold-a thousand at a time. That largesse may give...
Scheel was born in the cutlery town of Solingen in the Ruhr 51 years ago. The son of a wheel maker, he grew up to become a Luftwaffe pilot, a steel-factory superintendent and a politician. As leader of the left wing of the small Free Democratic Party, he served five years as Development Aid Minister through two governments; his staying power was such that he dubbed himself "the Mikoyan of the F.D.P." It was he who led the F.D.P. to flip-flop from right to left, and was instrumental in forming the coalition that brought Willy Brandt...