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...those months, Forrestal began to show signs of his illness. He had trouble making decisions, and his subordinates often bypassed him. Contributing to Forrestal's depression was a barrage of vilification from the left-wing press. Forrestal, it was said, had ordered that I. G. Farben not be bombed because he owned stock in the company; Forrestal was an "anti-Semite" and a "front man" for U.S. oil companies. Columnists Drew Pearson and Walter Winchell spread the phony story that Forrestal had panicked and run away when his wife was held up by a gunman. The night Forrestal jumped...
...hovels into bright, superbly equipped plants. These became the models for modern labs elsewhere and the source of a grand succession of inventions-mediicnes to fight sleeping sickness and tuberculosis -that made Germany the pharmacy of the world. Duisberg was also a prime mover in organizing the I. G. Farben chemical cartel, which played a key role in Hitler...
After V-E day, the Allies dismembered Farben, splitting off the large Hoechst and B.A.S.F. branches and leaving Bayer with only its badly damaged plant at Leverkusen and 3,000 employees. Came the cold war and Bayer in 1952 was permitted to repossess most of its prewar plants and resume full speed. Bayer's Rhineside headquarters at Leverjusen now embrace 600 buildings, including a 33-story skyscraper that is Germany's tallest. Looking Outward. A concentration on foreign markets has helped put Bayer ahead of its German competitors. Nearly half its sales are exports, and it has interests...
...years, Hoechst scientists developed Novocain, the first effective local anesthetic, produced Adrenalin, the first synthetic hormone, and opened the way for the company's huge expansion into plastics by discovering how to produce polyvinyl. In 1925 Hoechst joined the other giant German chemical companies in the I. G. Farben combine. After the war, when the Allies broke up the combine, Hoechst emerged as an independent company. Its main plant had barely been touched by Allied bombs...
Died. Ulrich Haberland, 60, dynamic boss of West Germany's giant Farben-fabriken Bayer, a Lutheran clergyman's son and ex-Nazi Party member who in 1951 took control of the largest chunk of the Occupation-decentralized I.G. Farben chemical empire, by last year had boosted the concern to a gross of $786 million in 133 countries; of a heart attack; in Eifel Mts., West Germany...