Word: rhine
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...Beaverbrook, Britain's frontier is not the Rhine of Herr Hitler, but South Africa. Beaverbrook's Empire is thus the kind that would sign the pact of Munich, and the Express now praises Chamberlain as a "champ" who has bowled over all his foes-at least in England...
Julius Peter Hell, 60, of Wisconsin, born on the Rhine, self-made millionaire (furnaces, tanks, snowplows),paternal employer...
...hundred years ago, Charlemagne's dream was realized by Ludwig I of Bavaria, who joined the Rhine's branch, the Main, with the Danube. It was Germany's first canal of any consequence, a 107-mile stretch between Bamberg and Kelheim...
...past Stettin, by canal through the centre of Berlin to Magdeburg on the Elbe, to Brunswick, to Hanover to Minden on the Weser, to Munster on the Ems, and down into Dortmund in the heart of the rich mining and industrial valley of the Ruhr, a tributary of the Rhine. Thus provided was a cheap route to the Ruhr from Sweden for the high grade ores so necessary for munitions manufacture...
...With the Rhine thus linked to the Baltic, next job will be to bring Ludwig's Rhine-Main-Danube canal up to date. Now it is used chiefly by canoeists, but by 1945 it is expected to be able to accommodate 1,200-ton lighters. Moving cheaply from Greater Germany down into the Danube and Balkan countries, these are expected to extend German influence and manufactured goods markets, return laden with ore, cereals and oil to fill the German need for raw materials...