Ruhr Valley
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In response, French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr Valley, the center of German iron, coal, and steel production, as a means to force repayment.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
He has been following a cohort of older women in the Ruhr Valley, an urban region of Germany, who are exposed to road-traffic pollution at levels similar to those in countless other communities worldwide.
From Nature ● Nov. 20, 2018
Two months later, he was one of the 133-strong squadron who dodged anti-aircraft fire, power cables and mountainous terrain to drop the four-tonne skipping bomb on dams in the Ruhr Valley.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2017
The interest rate that made sense in the Ruhr Valley, however, made much less sense in countries that were starting to see bubbles.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 17, 2016
At the moment I write, coal is the storm center of controversy that ranges from the Ruhr Valley of Germany to the Welsh fields of Britain and affects the destinies of statesmen and of countries.
From An African Adventure by Marcosson, Isaac Frederick
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