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...heavy industry of the Ruhr built the machines for two world wars and, in more recent years, fueled the post war recovery of West Germany. The Ruhr's steel furnaces and coal pits, eternally enveloped in a grimy grey haze, are still regarded as the foundation of the country's economy. Yet, almost un noticed, the concentration of new German industry has shifted south from the Ruhr to a bucolic land of rolling hills and medieval towns: the state of Baden-Württemberg, between the Rhine and Lake Constance...
...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...
...Ruhr seems unable to break out of its outmoded coal-and steel-based industrial pattern, which is slowly pulling it down. As cheaper oil and natural gas continue to win the battle against coal, an eerie stillness hangs over abandoned mines in parts of the Ruhr. By contrast, Baden-Württemberg is blossoming because it has attracted such modern growth industries as chemicals, electronics and precision mechanics. To lure new industries, the state offers long-range development possibilities, a sunny climate, air that is in sharp contrast with that of the smoky, rainy Ruhr, and excellent transport facilities...
...years ago, IBM-Germany was searching for a place to set up its new headquarters. Says Assistant General Manager Manfred Wahl: "We looked at Dusseldorf in the Ruhr and at Frankfurt, but we chose Stuttgart. Our managers prefer to stay here." That kind of intangible is often enough to tip the balance in Baden-Württemberg's favor. It makes a difference to be able to look out an office window and see green hills topped by castles instead of clouds of soot...
Mozambique itself will absorb a growing amount of electric power: the dam will be the cornerstone of a vast development scheme designed to transform the wilderness, which is infested with tsetse flies and mosquitoes, into what the Portuguese like to think will become the Ruhr of Africa. Among the area's natural resources are known reserves of nickel, copper and asbestos, plus a twelve-mile-long seam of coal and iron deposits that could produce an annual 1,000,000 tons...