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...smallest and least known of the three major offshoots was a company called Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik. Like the two others, Bayer and Hoechst, B.A.S.F. proved to be a true heir to the vaunted Farben inventiveness and enterprise. It quickly rebuilt its bombed-out plants along the Rhine at Ludwigshafen, then spread out over 1,580 acres to develop Europe's largest single chemical complex. Now Europe's leading producer of raw materials for plastics and synthetic fibers, B.A.S.F. increased its sales by 18% to $940 million in 1964, a performance that makes...
Room to Graze. B.A.S.F. has already outgrown Ludwigshafen, and its reach now extends far beyond the Rhine; 45% of sales, in fact, come from exports and foreign production. To expand foreign operations even more, B.A.S.F. has joined with Shell to build a fertilizer plant in Utrecht and an ammonia plant near Rotterdam, plans a $17.5 million polyethylene plant near Marseille. Last year it bought land in Antwerp for a $50 million factory that will produce fertilizer and synthetic fibers, and moved into Mexico by acquiring a local chemical firm. In the U.S., the company's biggest foreign customer, B.A.S.F...
...serve to heighten West Germany's sense of security, since it assumed that the invader would arrive only on land. But both the U.S. and France professed interest, and in fact similar devices are said to be under installation around, of all places, the Lorelei rocks on the Rhine, presumably to flood the Rhine valley to slow an attacker...
Aber natürlich! When Christian Democrats from the city of Bonn convene next month to select their candidate for the 1965 West German Parliamentary elections, they are expected to nominate the freshest whiff of springtime that ever wafted up the Rhine from Cologne: Konrad Adenauer, 89. Der Alte has been telling cronies that his idea of a hobby for those sunset years would be a back bench of the Bundestag for the term that ends...
Even on matters of basic strategy, there are points of obvious conflict. France, Italy and West Germany object to the U.S. emphasis upon "flexible response" if it means that NATO would not employ even tactical nuclear weapons against Communist aggression. Bonn understandably balks at any strategy that places the Rhine as the point at which all-out retaliation would begin. Recent training exercises by French troops indicated that French generals are more interested in defending French territory than in meshing with NATO. And all the other allies shudder at the prospect of giving quarreling NATO members Greece and Turkey...