Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...October 1918 the Allies enjoyed good weather for their final campaigns against the Kaiser's Germany. When the sun came out last week, Allied air power delivered the heaviest blows of the whole war against strategic targets, dropping 30,000 tons of bombs in three thunderous days on oil plants, on factories making airplane engines, tanks, trucks, locomotives, and on communication centers. The tactical fleets brought sorely needed support to the ground armies...
...hard way. Two weeks ago doughboys crossed the moat and scaled the sides of the fort, then were driven back by the Germans. Last week they tried again. Infantrymen fought their way into the fort through phosphorus and smokebomb clouds, tried to burn out its occupants with blazing oil. The Americans, clinging to the top, could hear the Germans scurry through the tunnels below, but they noted no sag in the defense, which went on from lower levels...
...Dropped one million tons of bombs on enemy targets (the one-millionth mark was reached during a raid on an oil refinery in Merseburg-Leuna on Sept. 28). The rate for one "recent" month was 4,400 tons per day, or three tons a minute...
...Mexico City, it was announced that the storm had broken the oil pipeline from Tampico in four places. That meant further gasoline restriction. As people queued up to use Mexico City's crippled bus service (there were already block-long queues for kerosene, charcoal, corn), nervous politicos held their breath, wondered if the storm had dealt the country's groggy economic system a knockout punch...
Their four points called for the elimination of Germany's synthetic oil and synthetic nitrogen plants, the stripping-down of steel production by 50%, the destruction of the Nazi aircraft industry...