Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Russia's huge oil fields in Transcaucasia, Hitler got 6,000,000 barrels in 1940, little more during the period of the Russo-German Pact. Most of Russia's 210,000,000-barrel annual production was desperately needed at home. It is for these fields that Hitler is driving, presumably because he feels that they would be more practicable for German use than those of Iran and Iraq. But, should he get them and get them intact, he would still have the problem of organizing a 2,500-mile transportation line before he could...
...from Chrysler, 55,000 have been delivered. All four-wheel drives, they range from half-ton command cars (two-seaters with a canvas top and a snub-nose hood) to one-and-a-half-ton "cargo motor transports" (plain, everyday small-size trucks). For the benefit of the visitors barrel-bellied "Frenchy" Raes, chief test driver for Dodge, gave one of the little command cars and a truck the works. Frenchy's working outfit was a white shirt, bow tie, suspenders, gray trousers, and a long cigar. The works consisted of darting up and down a 45% grade, growling...
Guns. Last stop of the inspection was the Highland Park Gun Barrel Arsenal where the company is tooling up to make barrels, water jackets and sights for a 40-mm. Bofors anti-aircraft gun. Eight other Chrysler plants are also working on the 500 parts it requires. A Navy officer on hand for last week's show called the gun "the finest thing of its type in the world." Chrysler's President K. T. Keller said the guns should be in production by February, didn't say in what amount...
...need is more imperative economically than artistically. Chief mainstay of the box office for the past six years have been Soprano Flagstad and gusty, barrel-built Danish Heldentenor Lauritz Melchior. Almost always the pair sold out the house with their hefty love-making in Tristan and Isolde, their caroling and ho-yo-to-ho-ing in the Ring operas. Ordinarily there would be on the Met's Wagnerian bench two sopranos who could take Flagstad's place as Melchior's teammate. But last week it appeared that neither of these would be fully available...
Equally vital to the Royal Navy are Iran's oil wells and the refineries close to the Persian Gulf. Much of the 78,600,000 barrels of petroleum that they produce each year has been earmarked for the tanks of Britain's ships and planes. But reportedly since May not a barrel of oil has left the country...