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...Dropped one million tons of bombs on enemy targets (the one-millionth mark was reached during a raid on an oil refinery in Merseburg-Leuna on Sept. 28). The rate for one "recent" month was 4,400 tons per day, or three tons a minute...
...night to bomb Emden, Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven, Bremen, Hamburg, Kiel. The upper reaches of the Rhine and the Main guided them to Frankfort, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Waldshut. On the Weser lie Gottingen, Kassel, Rotenburg-all aircraft centres. On the Saale, tributary of the Elbe, were the big synthetic oil works of Leuna, the Zeiss instrument works at Jena...
...Badische Anilin-& Soda-Fabrik he built the Oppau ammonia works, without which Germany, cut off from nitrate-producing Chile, might have lost the War in 1914 by running out of munitions. (He was instrumental in perfecting the formula for making saltpetre from ammonia.) In 1917 he built the great Leuna Works to supply hard-pressed Germany with more fertilizer & munitions. After the War the works were turned to dye-making, and in 1925 Dr. Bosch organized and became head of the Farbenindustrie. He says little, listens much, dresses carelessly, and peers through thick spectacles at the workings of the great...