The Ruhr basin--about the size of the State of Rhode Island --furnishes nearly 80 percent of Germany's coal and coke. In it are located 65 percent of her ingot steel and rolling mills. The whole ...

But the measure of the victory was back in the Ruhr basin. There last week the last cohesive resistance died; Dusseldorf fell. The bag of prisoners was astonishing: more than 317,000. There was no ...

“When Napoleon founded the Grand Duchy of Berg in the Ruhr Basin and the Kingdom of Westphalia he observed to his brother-in-law that the Ruhr was the strategic road to the North Sea. This ...

The reinsurer's asset management unit MEAG said on Monday it has agreed to buy a 49 percent stake in Steag's district heating business for the Ruhr Basin. Volkswagen's works council is expected to ...

In 1925 the mining industry was beginning to encounter severe economic hardship. Cheap coal from the Ruhr basin in Germany - taken by the victorious Allies as part of the reparations settlement ...