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During 20 prewar years Ranney's idea made no headway among oilmen, but he found that his scheme was just as good for tapping sources of water and gas. He drilled Ranney horizontal water wells in London and Lisbon and for 20 U.S. industrial plants, started a $20.000,000 water well in Paris just before the war. In Sydney, Australia, a Ranneywell yields...
...Spain across her borders. Rich refugees in dust-covered Rolls-Royces, tattered fugitives from Axis terror, arrogant diplomats and businessmen from Italy and Germany crowded the narrow streets of her aged, smelly towns. Over the lavish seaside resort of Estoril the wide-winged U.S. Clippers glided down to Lisbon's Tagus River and at the inland Cintra airport planes of the Lufthansa and the British Airways stood side by side. Portugal was open to all warring nations. Neutrality was profitable and, if one did not look too closely, respectable...
...Lisbon dispatch reported that military material was "constantly appearing on the wharves." As long ago as 1938, British weapons were being delivered to Portugal...
...Lisbon began deadly serious civil-defense exercises, with blackouts and complete mobilization of defense, first aid and salvage forces. The city suddenly took on a military look, with windows criss-crossed with tape, air-raid wardens patrolling the roofs. Some families began moving to the country...
...complete Portuguese swing to the Allies would: 1) clean out the Axis spies who have infested Lisbon since the war began, sometimes even getting in the way of United Nations spies; 2) further enclose the Nazis within Occupied Europe; 3) give the Allies, in the Azores, valuable ports and a stationary aircraft carrier in mid-Atlantic for anti-submarine patrol...