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...giant Krupp's 300 buildings in the Essen region, 200 were so badly damaged as to force complete shutdowns. Virtual demolition of one truck-assembly plant probably cost the German Army between 750 and 1,000 trucks. A large locomotive shop was destroyed by fire, which means that by September the Nazis will be missing about 150 badly needed locomotives which they might otherwise have...
Essen, city of some 700,000 people, which turned out precise and coldly beautiful machinery of war, was gasping with a thousand wounds. A single lightning raid, the R.A.F. reported, had razed the entire center of the city early last week, wrecked 75% of the giant Krupp arms factories (TIME, March 15). More than 450 acres of buildings, plants, machinery and human dwellings were in ruins. A week later the bombers came again, hit even harder with more than 1 ,000 tons of bombs...
...autumn of 1942, this last dream was dead. Göring, Krupp and other mammoths were taller and fatter, little businesses were withering away. In December the official Reich Office of Statistics announced that by September 1942, state insurance paid to firms closed by war had reached 44 million Reichsmarks-more than double the amount paid out in 1941. A recent issue of the Essener National Zeitung (Göring's paper) announced, as evidence of the success of Industrial Dictator Albert Speer's rationalization program, that in the past six months the number of firms producing special...
...Crowley pointed out, his patent grabs mean that "some of the finest research achievements of modern science" will be available to any interested U.S. manufacturer. His plums include: Krupp patents on heavy machinery, diesel engines, locomotives and metal alloys; I. G. Farbenindustrie's work on oil and coal products, aluminum and magnesium fabricating, etc.; Focke-Wulf and Dornier aircraft improvements. But for the long pull, the significant part of Leo Crowley's letter to the President was the outline he made of his patent policy. It was a patent reformer's dream...
...pound class--Tyng (H) defeated Krupp (M.I.T...