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Common Market businesses have gone on a merger bender. Germany's Messerschmitt and France's Fouga are jointly making aircraft. Italy's Innocenti and Germany's Hans Glas are making cars together, Luxembourg's Dostert and Germany's Wilhelm Seibel truck trailers. Agfa and France's Vedette are collaborating on cameras. Eurista is a new FrenchGerman coalition making electrical resistors. Gasoline is now distributed in France and Germany by Desmarais. The Société Française PIC and Krupp recently signed an agreement to build a petroleum plant. "Within...
...drama is sure: pretty Marguerita Stahli, buried alive for 15 long minutes, fearful only that her fiance might have died during the blast (he did); the curiosity of the men in Fighter Command Operations Room as they plot the erratic flight up the North Sea coast of a lone Messerschmitt bearing Deputy Fuehrer Rudolf Hess on his mad "peace mission" to King George VI. Such touches have the gritty reality...
...make tanks, already manufactures Hispano-Suiza armored troop carriers under license. In fact, close to half of Bundeswehr procurement now benefits German firms. Germany's once huge aircraft industry has been pulled together into two big "North" and "South" industrial units, composed of such famous firms as Heinkel, Messerschmitt and Dornier. The government has already awarded them contracts to make 200 F-104s and other foreign planes under license. A Krupp subsidiary, "Weser" Flugzeugbau, has been commissioned to design a medium-range transport. In March, Strauss's Defense Ministry parceled out $520 million in military spending, five times...
...shrewd mastermind of Luftwaffe production whose farseeing predictions and plans were thumbed down by Hitler and Goring; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Stuttgart, West Germany. Denazified in 1949, Heinkel made motor scooters and midget cars, recently announced plans to go back into big-time planemaking with Willi Messerschmitt...
...racy Messerschmitt Tiger, only 50 in. high with two seats arranged tandem fashion under a lift-up plastic dome. Fastest of all the midgets, the Tiger has been clocked at 87 m.p.h...