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...State Building, a coal miner named Josef earned his daily bread this difficult winter. Fifteen European countries, including Germany, have a grim interest in Josef, for their economic revival is closely tied to the amount of coal which he and some 300,000 other miners win from the rich Ruhr mines. In the dust-choked gloom of the pit face TIME Correspondent Percy Knauth talked with Josef, trying to learn why the miners are producing only half as much as before...
...bonus system introduced in January, Josef gets extra ration cards entitling him to buy a pound and a half of bacon, a pound of coffee, a half-pound of sugar, two bottles of schnapps and 100 cigarets, as well as some clothing and household goods. Other Germans in the Ruhr have not even been able to buy their flour ration since Christmas...
Bacon & Bituminous. One of the Hannover Mine's two directors, blond, youthful Mining Engineer Erich Ricken, who knows most of his men by their first names, gives this simple picture of the Ruhr coal production problem: "There are 300,000 miners in the Ruhr. What they need more than anything else is fats. Give each of them an extra pound of bacon every week. You would need 600 tons of bacon monthly. Figuring 25 working days, that means 24 tons of bacon per day. To pay for 24 tons of bacon every day you'd need...
...first overseas press conference, Candidate Stassen was caught in no snap judgments. But at a private session he hammered away at one generalization: Europe's problems are essentially economic; at the heart of them is coal. Said he: "That leads you to the Saar and the Ruhr and Silesia. I'll have to go to Germany and Poland before I know the answer to that...
...central government. France is pressing for maximum decentralization in a weak confederation of weak German states. The U.S. and Britain, shying away from either extreme, want a central authority strong enough to govern, superimposed on states which are independent only in local affairs. Britain and the U.S. want the Ruhr to be under German political rule, although both are moving closer to the French proposal for international economic control of Ruhr industries...