Word: fischers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian iron curtain is nowhere more impenetrable than in Russia itself. Last week came a rare and revealing glimpse behind that curtain into the Soviet Ukraine. John Fischer, Harper's Magazine associate editor on leave with UNRRA, returned from three months of unrestricted work, travel and observation in the Ukraine with the outside world's most direct report on the region since...
Cities and countryside alike had been devastated. Fischer found Poltava and Kremenchug "worse than Berlin," his previous superlative of destruction. Kharkov was almost as bad. The great Donbas industrial basin was one wide ruin. Rural areas were little better...
VICTORIAN DOCTOR (336 pp.)-T. 6. Wilson-Fischer...
...from-gas plant, Carthage will use a variation of a method which Dobie Keith became familiar with during a visit to Germany in the thirties. With the Fischer-Tropsch method, the Germans made gasoline out of coal. But the gasoline was only 40-octane, and the method was too expensive for commercial use in this country. Keith worked out a similar method of making gasoline from natural gas, thinks he has made it commercially feasible. In brief, natural gas is burned with oxygen to produce carbon monoxide and hydrogen, which can then be reacted to produce liquid hydrocarbons, i.e., gasoline...
Markoosha Fischer's indictment of Moscow correspondents (TIME, Dec. 17) is, it seems to me, unfair to a lot of American newsmen. . . . The contemporary "freshmen in world politics" almost to a man fought the good fight with the Narkomindel in an effort to secure greater access to information and a freedom from arbitrary Soviet censorship...