Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prof. Merriam Remember the old adage about barks honor the exalted name of Standard Oil-Allah...
...Reich homeland. Bombers and fighters together had destroyed 15,210 German planes. And all this was entirely apart from the operations of the Ninth and Twelfth (Tactical) U.S. Air Forces, or of the R.A.F., which flexed its muscles this week with a smashing 3,088 ton assault on oil refineries near Harburg...
Scatter Technique. Last February the Anglo-U.S. heavies smashed German airplane production so flat that the Nazis began to disperse and hide their assembly points in small shops, hangars, garages. The Allies then promoted the German synthetic oil plants, which cannot be dispersed, to No. 1 target priority. The result, plus the loss of oilfields in Poland and Rumania, so parched the Nazis for oil that the Battle of France found them making heavy use of bicycles and horses. But the target switch gave German air production a chance to stage a slow, steady comeback. Allied experts now place...
...Again. Last fortnight the Germans picked a day to fight-putting up 500 fighters over one target alone, the Merseburg oil plants in central Germany-and they knocked down 40 U.S. bombers, 19 escorts. But they lost 208 planes of their own. Since then, they have made only occasional, feeble feints...
Moonshine and Confession. Longtime curse of the Ozarks, and Preacher Howard's knottiest problem, has been moonshining. One of his book's most poignant chapters concerns his watch by the bedside of a delirious 14-year-old boy dying in agony of fusel-oil poisoning after drinking moonshine. The boy's eyeballs bled and he screamed: "Git my eyes, Pappy; they's rollin' off the bed." When the boy died, Preacher Howard had a hard time dissuading an uncle from going out with his shotgun to find the man who gave the boy the liquor...