Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Germans had been expecting the blast. A few days before the meeting, the government introduced a new $500 million, five-year aid plan, largely drawn from counterpart funds set up as part of the Marshall Plan aid. Said Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard: "The German people should not forget that after their country's collapse they received help through the sacrifices of other nations. We shall be prepared to recognize our obligations and make a deliberate sacrifice to help other peoples." Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano added that "development policy must be given equal status with our Eastern policy...
...more far-reaching plan is to levy a special tax, the proceeds of which would be earmarked for an aid program. But as a German delegate hastily explained to his Development Assistance Group colleagues, this is a pre-election year in West Germany-"a bad time for burdening the German public with new taxes...
...getting admitted to the U.S. The current most wanted list favors doctors, veterinarians, nurses, tool and die makers, teachers and engineers. West Germany has set up recruiting bureaus in Athens, Madrid and Naples, this year imported 43,000 workers from Italy, 13,000 from Greece and Spain. The German postal administration even imported a group of Spaniards, rushed them through a language course to learn to deliver the mails. Within a few weeks the Spaniards were fluent enough in German to read signs outside factories that offered "the highest wages anywhere," turned in their mailbags for better jobs...
...Shipbuilder Cornelis Verolme, who needs 1,800 workers, plans to import Chinese from Hong Kong, some of them refugees from Red China, train them and send them to new yards in Brazil and Ireland. The refugee from Communism, if he has the right skill, is a wanted man. East German workers often cross to West Berlin, look at the help-wanted ads, then write letters for jobs. If accepted, they move West...
...Share of Prosperity. Inevitably, the labor shortage has raised workers' wages and benefits, given them a greater share in the world's new prosperity and an appetite for more. One of the miracles of the West German postwar recovery was the way a highly unionized nation freely consented to businessmen's arguments that labor must keep its demands down so that German products would be competitive abroad. The sheen of this particular miracle is fading. Last week Karl Van Berk, president of West Germany's 520,000-member Coal Miners' and Energy Workers' Union...