Word: rheingau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reasons: 1) Nationalist and pro-French agitation before the War kept Germany from developing Rhine traffic at Strasbourg; under the French booming Strasbourg now ships over 5,000,000 tons of freight a year. 2) Under Germany Strasbourg breweries and Alsatian wines were practically unknown because of Bavarian and Rheingau competition: contrariwise. Strasbourg beer is now the best in France and her ten breweries pay dividends of 20% to 30%. 3) Adolf Hitler. Strasbourg's prosperity does not entirely cover the province. Wool-weaving, cotton-spinning Mulhouse is as badly off as any of the cities of the South...
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