Word: volkswagen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While this elaborate defense was being organized, a couple of Crimeds threw some CRIMSON'S into the back seat of a Volkswagen and drove down to New Haven...
After reading the nonsense surrounding Messrs. Walker, Exner and Earl's activities, I thank providence for such small favors as the Volkswagen...
Adenauer's first gambit was to offer Schäffer a new Ministry of Economic Property, which would administer government-owned or controlled enterprises (Volkswagen, 50% of the nation's iron ore. 90% of its lignite). He sweetened the pill by asking if Schäffer would also like to be Vice Chancellor. Protestants within Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party promptly squawked that to replace Protestant Vice Chancellor Franz Blücher with Roman Catholic Schaffer would wreck the Cabinet balance between Roman Catholics and Protestants. Schäffer agreed to accept only if he was also...
...across the Nile at Cairo. The products of Bayer's giant Leverkusen works now fill the drugstores of Southeast Asia. Three years after the French gave up Indo-China, half the cars in Laos are German-made; in an auto race in the Belgian Congo, Volkswagen took the first eight places. The heavy-machinery firm DEMAG has built the first steel works in Egypt, Korea, Burma and the Philippines, and others for France, South Africa, Brazil and India. DEMAG-built furnaces now turn out some 37 million tons of steel a year round the world...
...received such an ovation in Socialist Nürnberg that he raced off across his native Franconian countryside singing Ins Land der Franken fahren from his Mercedes' windows. He outdrew Socialist Boss Erich Ollenhauer three to one in the Saarland's industrial Völklingen. Heckled by Volkswagen workers in Wolfsburg over his plan to sell their state-owned plant, he sent 35,000 letters to their homes explaining that the whole idea was to sell "people's shares" to small investors like themselves. Wolfsburg, like Nürnberg and Vঝklingen, went C.D.U. for the first...