Word: duisburg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other nine German states. Some 10,600 industrial firms produce more and export more per capita than those in any other area of the country. And, according to statistics recently released by Deutsches Industrieinstitut, the state capital, Stuttgart (pop. 614,000), has edged out the Ruhr's Duisburg as the German city with the highest proportion of industrial workers: 24 out of every 100 v. Duisburg...
...last November, nine men wearing identical wide-brim hats and ankle-length overcoats, and carrying identical canvas bags, stepped off a plane in Düsseldorf and settled into a hotel in Duisburg in the industrial Ruhr...
...away the debris, rebuild the fleet, deepen the rivers and improve the country's 65 inland ports. Reason for continued reliance on the Continent's oldest form of transportation: it is still the cheapest way to ship bulk freight. To move a metric ton of coal from Duisburg to Mannheim, for example, costs $1.87 by water, $4.87 by rail...
Shaky Bridge. The daring operation has been under way since 1955, and it is working well. One and a half square miles of Duisburg, including streets, wharves, shipyards, steel mills, railroad yards and parks, is sinking on schedule But as the city prospered, traffic congestion on Duisburg streets got worse and worse, and the obvious solution, a mile-long highway bridge to carry traffic over the tangle of factories, railroads and waterways, seemed impossible because of the sinking ground...
...appropriate hydraulic cylinders to raise a section or shove it sideways. So far they have kept the roadway in fairly good shape. The streams of motorists who use the bridge have noticed only slight, occasional waviness. The waviness will probably continue until 1970, when the coal miners burrowing under Duisburg will have finished lowering their city...