Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazis were said to have stripped the ack-ack guns from ruined cities, e.g., Berlin, to reinforce the oil sites. In any event, Leipzig was more viciously defended from the ground than Berlin had ever been. Eighty-six U.S. planes failed to get back to their bases. Some landed safely elsewhere, but at week's end 40 bombers and 13 fighters were still missing...
...scourge of Allied planes from Britain and Italy. They took a loss of over 700 fighters in November, but their dispersed and hidden assembly plants were more than able to replace it. In October the Reich had shuddered under the second heaviest bomb tonnage of the war,* but its oil production had crept up (according to Allied intelligence) from 23% to 30% of 1943 capacity...
...Charles de Gaulle climbed into his transport plane and zoomed off for Moscow. In Cairo, he dropped down for a chat with Egypt's King Farouk. In Teheran, he dropped down for a chat with Iran's Shah Reza Pahlevi. But at Baku, Russia's big oil city on the Caspian Sea, General de Gaulle ran into General Winter...
...many heroes of the day was Machinist's Mate Robert R. Scott, whose station was below decks at an air-compressing machine supplying the 5-inch guns of the California. A torpedo blast ruptured his compartment, and oil and water began to pour in. Scott's companions got out. Scott yelled: "I'll stay here and give them air as long as the guns are going." They closed the door on his compartment to save the rest of the ship from being flooded. Scott stayed and supplied air to clear the gun barrels until he was drowned...
Married. Ethel Barrymore Colt, 32, brunet, convent-bred actress daughter of Ethel Barrymore; and John Romeo Miglietta di Carmiano, fiftyish, Oxford-educated Italian-born executive of American Republics Corp. (oil); she for the first time, he for the third; in Manhattan...