Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week the Germans in Rumania lost the rich oil fields of Ploesti; Constanta, Rumania's chief port on the Black Sea; Bucharest, the "little Paris" of the Balkans. Worst of all, by choosing to fight for the Wallachian plain, Adolf Hitler had lost the better part of 30 divisions -which might otherwise have pulled back to defend Germany proper. Moreover the Russians, now heading for a junction with Marshal Tito's forces in Yugoslavia, threatened to cut off all the remaining Wehrmacht divisions-estimated at 15 to 20-in the southern Balkan peninsula...
Ploesti. For the Allied cause as a whole, Ploesti's capture would have been a meatier triumph six months ago than it was last week. Germany is already so parched for oil that its motorized transport is grinding to a stop on all fronts. Allied air attacks on Ploesti have reduced its rate of annual output from 5,500,000 metric tons to 2,000,000. Nevertheless Ploesti in August was still providing Germany with about one-third of its total natural and synthetic oil, and Allied airmen still bombed Ploesti as a prime target...
...passenger was Lieut. Colonel James A. Gunn III of Kelseyville, Calif., who had been shot down over the oil fields of Ploesti-"the hottest target on the face of the earth"-two weeks before. He was one of more than 3,000 U.S. airmen downed in Rumania in 13 months of raids. Two-thirds had been killed. But 1,101, plus 25 Britons, were still alive in prison camps around Bucharest. They were well treated but they chafed...
Houston. The Humble Oil & Refining Co., Texas' largest oil firm, made all its young workers sign an agreement to go back to their classes. A group of high-school boys and girls stumped the city. Said a 17-year-old as he quit his job: "I go into the Navy around Christmas and want to get in one more season of football...
...running at the rate of more than 2,000,000 tons a year. Her shipyards could replace only 1,000,000 in steel hulls. Her emergency program for wooden ships, 100 to 300 tons, was a flop; they were good only for Inland Sea and intercoastal traffic. Short of oil, minerals, food, even lumber, the Empire was in a pinch...