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They did. As Volkswagen Maker Heinz Nordhoff said, "From then on, things went." Elected to the Bundestag as a Christian Democratic Deputy in 1949, Erhard took over the Economics Ministry in Konrad Adenauer's first Cabinet. He prodded, exhorted, bullied, preached productivity and sleepless enterprise as the ticket to German recovery. He offered generous tax concessions for enterprisers who would build new plants, other tax inducements to those who could sell their products abroad. He used his power to reduce tariffs and import quotas to beat down the raw-material prices for Germany's expanding factories, boldly encouraged...
Sickness delayed the arrival of the Studentischer Madrigal-choir of Munster University in West Germany, whose Volkswagen caravan drove into the Yard last night. Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society members stood in the rain for several hours waiting to greet the 52 students and their director, Frau Herma Reuter. The group will present a concert of Bach, Brahms, and Bruckner tonight at 8:30 in Paine Hall...
Just before the rally began, the finance company seized one contestant's Fiat. The jack-booted driver of an Australian Ford showed up with his rear seat cramped by an ice-cream-packed icebox. The crew of a Queensland Volkswagen whooped it up in American Indian headdress. But most of the competitors in the 10,563-mile, round-Australia Mobilgas Rally who started west from Melbourne last month spent their last spare minutes sensibly checking safety equipment. They would have to drive a distance more than one-third the circumference of the earth, bounce over the worst...
...particularly hollow charge that it was lowering Germany's standard of living, then motored out to the East-West border village of Eichholz on what he hoped would be a dramatic demonstration of his concern for German reunification. Ahead of Ollenhauer's Mercedes went a grey Volkswagen with loudspeakers chanting: "Achtung, Achtung...
...VOLKSWAGEN BOOM is buzzing along so fast that used cars originally slated for European drivers are being brought into U.S. and sold as import models. Franchised Volkswagen dealers are worried because made-for-Europe models lack safety devices that many states demand, e.g., shatterproof glass, directional signals, sealed-beam headlights...