Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West; 6) that even the addition of Russia would hardly suffice to beat Germany; 7) that only the addition of America's weight could bring about the definite defeat of Germany; 8) that in any case the war would be a very long one; 9) that oil supplies would eventually prove to be Germany's fatal weakness; 10) that the most probable result . . . would be the "establishment of Russia's supremacy in Europe...
Here & Now. Whatever the President's pronouncement meant for the future, it had very definite results on the present. It undercut General Motors' contention that profits had nothing to do with the current wage negotiations. It was a sharp threat to the oil industry, where another fact-finding panel is at work...
Hastily, General Motors decided to reopen negotiations with the union. The oil companies quickly announced that they would also resume talks. The fact-finding panels took a recess to see what would come of the bargaining...
...have waged the war at all. Abroad, I.G. had "cartel arrangements" with 2,000 companies, used them to help the Nazis. At home, besides its own plants, I.G. controlled another 380 German firms. As armorer for the Nazis, I.G. made all of Germany's synthetic rubber and lubricating oil; 95% of its poison gases (Farben tested them on concentration camp inmates); 90% of the nickel; 88% of the magnesium, most of the gasoline and explosives for the buzz-bombs...
Chicago was "a vast, unorganized lunatic asylum." There Author Miller saw an Indian, in full regalia, selling snake oil in the shadow of "the great monument to chewing-gum lit up by floodlights." On a wall was chalked, in letters ten feet high: GOOD NEWS! GOD IS LOVE! In Milwaukee and St. Louis (where "the true morbidity of the American soul finds its outlet"), the houses "seemed to have been decorated with rust, blood, tears, sweat, bile, rheum and elephant dung." Pittsburgh was "the crucible where all values are reduced to slag." Detroit "can do in a week...