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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Airfields & Oil Wells. The Russians came ostensibly to establish order in Sinkiang. They built barracks, airfields, factories, oil wells. They created a police force and army. The nominal head of the Sinkiang Government was General Sheng Shih-tsai. now Minister of Agriculture in the Chungking Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Palpitations of the Heartland | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

...thing to change the oil in a car; it's another to change the blood in a human being. But from England last week came news that the trick had been done - a baby had had a series of transfusions as total as draining a crankcase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Change of Blood | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

...European industry creaks back to life, lack of raw materials is a brake on production. All industries are short of steel, coal, chemicals, rubber, textiles, oil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Europe's Recovery | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

...Boom? All Florida was stirred when the Humble Oil & Refining Co., drilling in the muckish Everglades, brought in the state's second oil well and first important producer. Estimated production: 500 to 1,500 barrels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR ECONOMY: Facts, Figures | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

Help Wanted. Leo T. Crowley's Foreign Economic Administration bought the entire exportable surplus of Argentine linseed and linseed oil, estimated at 1,000,000 tons. Reason: U.S. paint manufacturers were faced with a cut of 50% in production this summer due to a lack of linseed oil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR ECONOMY: Facts, Figures | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

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