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...would have been a meatier triumph six months ago than it was last week. Germany is already so parched for oil that its motorized transport is grinding to a stop on all fronts. Allied air attacks on Ploesti have reduced its rate of annual output from 5,500,000 metric tons to 2,000,000. Nevertheless Ploesti in August was still providing Germany with about one-third of its total natural and synthetic oil, and Allied airmen still bombed Ploesti as a prime target...
...Cannot the olive oil be held and later shipped to liberated European countries (whose needs have been reported to UNRRA as one million metric tons of fats & oils for the first six months after...
...clinic took them in, gave them intelligence tests, scholastic achievements tests, visual examinations, eye movement photographs, audio-metric tests and recorded their oral readings upon entering to compare them with the ones that would be made when-they were improved...
...request, SPAB last week approved the allocation of 218,000 metric tons of scarce U.S. tinplate to 19 Latin American countries* enough to stock their canners for this season. By this week's end, similar allocation approvals were expected on iron & steel, tanning materials, soda ash, farm equipment, anhydrous ammonia, rayon, cork, borax and acetone; eventually on 101 products...
...Hitler already can get most of the iron ore he needs from occupied countries and Sweden. European Russia has 67% of Russia's iron-ore production, plus gigantic unmined reserves. Just before the war Germany imported about 20,000,000 metric tons of iron ore per year, and the Ukraine reserves alone are estimated at 800,000,000 metric tons...