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Over Düsseldorf last week, a dark, beetle-browed young man leaned from the window of a low-flying Cessna and shoveled out handbills by the thousand. "Everything moves. Nothing stands still," they proclaimed. "Stop building cathedrals and pyramids which crumble like lumps of sugar! Stop resisting changeability! Be free! Live!" In the streets below, one man picked up a copy, read it, then shook his fist at the plane. Artist Jean Tinguely, 33, was delighted. "Some will say, 'very good.' Others will object. The overall result will be just what I wanted: total confusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Jangling Man | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

Berlin does not pay its own way (its exports were 82% of its imports in 1957) is that half the capital's income formerly came through banking, insurance and commercial headquarters now shifted to Frankfurt, Düsseldorf and Hamburg. Booming Berlin still needs a $360 million-a-year assist from "out there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BERLIN: Hands, Brains & Moods | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...West Germany's eight independent stock exchanges, led by Düsseldorf, the bullishness neared 1955 levels. A year ago the index of share prices on the exchanges was 192. It hit 227 in June, has since soared to 277, rose five points in the first week of October. Chief reason: a shortage of stock because many companies have been using profits to expand rather than raise capital by new stock issues. The rise has brought in more foreign buyers, stirred Germany's first crop of small investors through new mutual funds whose business is booming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Optimism Unlimited | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

...sculpture, Death has come off far better than Taxes. But now in the big new Municipal Administration Building in Düsseldorf, West Germany, taxpayers have at last found a spokesman in 35-year-old Sculptor Max Kratz. Asked to design two door handles for the main doors through which Düsseldorf's Rhinelanders must pass to pay such local levies as dog taxes, school taxes and licensing fees, Sculptor Kratz "felt an irresistible urge to help taxpayers let off some steam and at the same time give them some consolation. I wanted the poor devils to understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Taxpayers' Friend | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

What makes Düsseldorf the nation's No. 1 securities market is partly its position as capital of West Germany's biggest and most prosperous state, ringed by expanding coal and steel industries in the Rhine-Ruhr area. But mainly Düsseldorf-and its sister exchanges-owe the new boom to the insistent demands of West Germany's industry for new expansion capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Boom in D | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

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