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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...
...iron was French, the limestone Belgian, the coke came from Holland and Germany. Yet the stream of molten metal, tapped last week by Italian workmen in the Luxembourg town of Esch, was steel that belonged to Europe-solid and symbolic evidence that the Schuman Plan dream is at last reality. Six nations, producing 20% of the world's steel, would henceforth pool their outputs, eliminate tariffs, surrender control (but not ownership) of their basic industries to a supranational High Authority, headed by a dapper Frenchman who hopes to forge not merely an industrial colossus...
...coke machine may soon be installed to draw hot-weather customers and keep up the present average of about 100 visitors a day. Stastney also intends to increase the comfort of the room, which is now furnished with plain wooden chairs and tables...
...President, fortified with a bottle of Coke, told 50,000 cheering workers and peasants at La Paz's Sport Stadium that his revolutionary program of reforms was just getting started. Next, he shouted, would come free elections (with women voting for the first time), land reform and the reorganization of Bolivian finances...
...neither its memories of Washington nor its founders' high hopes were ever enough to make Perryopolis bloom. Its underground coal seams ran out; the coke ovens south of town were abandoned. It drowsed through the 20th century without sewers, street lights (except the one over the village square), or even a local government. But Perryopolis had something to speculate and gossip about-the odd life of Mrs. Mary Fuller Frazier, last daughter of the town's rich family...