Word: lheim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More Oil. Scientists have been agreed that nature long since ceased making petroleum by subjecting large deposits of organic matter to centuries of subterranean pressure. But Dr. Hans Tropsch of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (Mülheim-an-der-Ruhr, Germany) gave hope that nature is still building oil stores, by another process. Germans have perfected processes of manufacturing synthetic fuel oils by heating carbon (bituminous coal, lignite) in a stream of steam or natural gas, in the presence of certain catalytics including iron. Germany's fuel-oil supply now seems assured as long as her coal lasts. Dr. Tropsch pointed...
...payment of reparations) was performed in London on Aug. 15 of last year (TIME, Aug. 18). Under pressure from all sides, the then Premier Edouard Herriot of France promised, in the name of his country, to evacuate all Ruhr territory to a line running between Oberhausen, Mülheim, Kettwig within one year...
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