Word: wendel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flick turned to France and quickly landed a buyer: the giant De Wendel steel company, which has, in the past, built French (and German) cannon. Unable to feed their blast furnaces with scarce and low-quality French coke, De Wendel and eight associates needed a more reliable "coal-base" for their steel mills. They bought out Flick, thereby making sure of 5,500,000 tons of Ruhr coal a year, about 5% of West Germany's total output...
...emergency, Berliners (88% Protestant) rallied to help their fellow Christians. Berlin's famed Evangelical Bishop Otto Dibelius threw open the Marienkirche, the principal Protestant church in the city, to the Catholic meetings. He took Munich's Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph Wendel as a guest in his own home. At open-air Masses in the Walbühne. Catholics worshiped before the same cross used by Protestants at last year's Evangelical Kirchentag. At Berlin's Funkturm fairgrounds, Protestant Pastor Lothar Kreyssing addressed the packed Catholic gathering and got the most thunderous applause...
...Houston's gloomy old municipal auditorium one night last week, Texans plumped into their seats for a go at a favorite pastime: admiring the work of a native son. This time, the son was Composer and Folksong-Arranger (Home on the Range) David Wendel Fentress Guion, 56, a short (5 ft. 5 in.) sober-faced man with a pince-nez, who now lives in Pennsylvania. Guion's latest composition: a symphonic suite called Texas, commissioned for the Houston Symphony Society...
...Wild Blue Yonder" centers on the crew of a B-29 during the last war. Led by an oestrum-happy pilot (Wendel Corey) and a slap-happy sergeant (Phil Harris), these fellows really have themselves a ball. Why, on their very first flight they take the plane up to high altitude, against orders, and the resulting pressure blows one of the gunners out of the plane like a bullet...
...nothing but admiration for Dutson. They were not bothered at hearing that he was courting three more women. When asked where he was, they answered happily, "Between here and there." At week's end it seemed likely that Dutson had jaunted off to Mexico, where, Mormon Bishop Wendel Davis suspects, he maintains a sort of foreign branch with two wives...