a major industrial and coal mining region in the valley of the Ruhr river in northwestern Germany
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Equally, a planned railway from Rotterdam to the border with Germany will be more profitable if Germany continues the line into its industrial Ruhr region. Incompatible standards.
Martin and his comrades, all experts at low-level bombing, flew into a wall of enemy fire at a height of only 60 feet in 1943 and dropped bouncing bombs in a night raid intended to breach dams and flood the industrial Ruhr Valley.
Even the depressed Ruhr Valley, beset with steel- and coal-industry layoffs, has profited.
During the workers' struggles, the word "Rheinhausen" became synonymous with the economic decline of the Ruhr Valley.
Worried about job losses in the Ruhr's outmoded heavy industry, workers' representatives from Hoesch and other area firms wrote Gorbachev in 1987 asking for more economic cooperation.
For six months the workers struggled to keep the Rheinhausen Krupp steel mill from closing down, a victim of economic decline in the Ruhr, the long-time industrial powerhouse of Germany.
In Oberhausen, called the "Cradle of the Ruhr" since the region's first iron foundry was established here in 1758, layoffs have happened before.
Since the 1950s, when the Ruhr Valley was booming, the Japanese have made Duesseldorf a focal point for their operations in Germany.
A case in point is the planned closure of the Rheinhausen steelworks in the famed Ruhr rust belt.
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