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...finally cast against him by I. G. Farben itself. At the last minute Bill tries to diversify. He fills an order for 43 plastic bathtubs made out of Volupton ("It feels like folks") for an Indian ma-harajah's palace. Poor Bill's maharajah turns out to be a telephone-booth Indian who suddenly folds his palace and silently steals away. On little elephant feet, an unfunny love interest clomps its way through the otherwise funny book. And occasionally, 37-year-old Author Grisman lets overwriting interfere with the reading. At his best, Grisman neatly catches the self...
...enemy property (TIME, Oct. 14). The Swiss claim that the stock of the $163 million company rightfully belongs to Switzerland's Interhandel holding company, which ran General Aniline before World War II. The U.S. insists that Interhandel was merely a front for Nazi Germany's I.G. Farben...
...legal issue hinges on the U.S. charge that General Aniline's parent, Interhandel, was really a front for Nazi Germany's I. G. Farben. But Swiss-based Interhandel and 1,500 of its stockholders proclaimed that they were not German-controlled; in a maze of litigation they tied up persistent U.S. attempts to sell off General Aniline stock to the public. U.S. lower courts and a Federal Court of Appeals turned down Interhandel's plea for a return of the stock. The loss in court was largely the Swiss government's own fault; its stiff banking...
...same tape for rebroadcasting. But the erasure was muffed and, in the middle of Ike's talk. Hitler's voice broke in loudly. Orders quickly came to manufacture some new tape. Orr tracked down Dr. Fritz Pflaumer, who had developed the original magnetic tape for the I.G. Farben chemical combine, got the basic know-how necessary to produce the new tape. Pflaumer also gave him a formula for a much better tape...
...splinter companies of the war-racked Farben trust started working from the moment the shooting stopped. Bayer got the first postwar production permit in the British occupation zone, and the other Farben companies rushed to follow. The market was enormous, since Germany had no money to import such vitally needed products as drugs, fertilizers and dyes. To replace the plants and patents lost to the Allies, the companies plowed back 20% of their sales into buildings and research. B.A.S.F., for example, has applied for 3,900 new chemical patents since the war, now bases only 200 of its thousands...