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...within the shadow of smoke stacks - all because of the Ruhrverband, a cooperative society of 250 municipalities and 2,200 industries along the river. The society gets results with a simple principle: he who pollutes the waters must pay the cost of purification. Carefully calculated assessments have enabled the Verband to build 102 purification plants since 1948, and encourage members to clean up their own wastes. The Ruhr's steel industry has installed water-circulation systems in its plants to use the same water over and over again. As a result, the plants now draw only 2.6 cubic yards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hydrology: A Question of Birthright | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

They will be selected from among all the universities in Germany through the Verband Deutscher Student enschaften, ten, the National Student Union. Carl Sapers '53 is currently abroad arranging for this selection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Awards Grant To 7 German Student | 3/27/1952 | See Source »

...German Plan, says Author Chéradame, is contained in a brochure, Greater Germany and Central Europe in 1950, published with the backing of the Alldeutscher Verband (Pan-German League) in 1895. It conceived of the conquest of Europe and its exploitation by Germany. Remarkably foresighted chiefly because he took the Germans' plans seriously, André Chéradame wrote after reading this brochure, in 1901: "The inevitable war between Germany and Russia will finish this undertaking. If it is successful, Germany will annex the Baltic provinces, Esthonia, Livonia and Courland. She will set up a Polish state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 55-Year War | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

Masters of ersatz, Germans devised detours, pretenses, camouflages. They built underground factories; used commercial planes to develop military design; laid out airfields planted in alfalfa, made hangars like barns, dressed greaseballs like hayseeds. Thousands of young Germans joined Deutsche Lujtsport Verband (German Air Sports Society) and proceeded to fly their sports planes up & down Germany in tight military formations. Meanwhile civilians took to gliding and soaring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: 72-Hour War? | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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