Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mile front -the mouth of a funnel narrowing into the Galati Gap, where 45 miles of Danubian plain, marsh and delta separate the mountains from the sea. On the Gap's farther side stretch the fat grain fields of Rumania, the high roads to Ploesti's oil, and the strategic plains of Hungary...
...Turned the German Carpathian line. ¶Snatched from hungry German fingers the rich Bessarabian grain harvest, threatened to snatch the whole Rumanian breadbasket as well as the oil wells that supply one-third of the Wehrmacht's fuel. ¶Deprived the Welirmacht of some 300,000 Rumanian soldiers. Most of the fight had gone out of these troops (except in Transylvania, where they took up an old feud against the Hungarians...
...government cultivates the masses as diligently as they cultivate the soil.For outstanding production, farmers and workers win citations, newspaper publicity, awards. Industry (oil, pig iron, light machinery, light arms, paper, textiles) is primitive and small-scale. But all labor is unionized, guaranteed decent wages, penalized for absenteeism, tardiness...
...Somervell authorized the Canol project without consulting the Navy (or any other department), spent $134,000,000 on it, used up some 200,000 tons of scarce material, wasted manpower and supplies when "four tankers . . . could have carried in one trip more 100-octane gasoline, motor gasoline and fuel oil than would be produced by the entire Canol project by Jan. 1, 1945. . . all because of a disintegrated military setup under which coordination cannot be compelled...
...first big blast at the U.S.-British oil agreement (TIME, Aug. 21) came last week from Sun Oil's President J. Howard Pew. In an open letter to Chairman Tom Connally of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Pew said his chief objection was the "vagueness" of the language, which could make the agreement "as in nocuous or as vicious as its administrators desire." Suspiciously he hinted that the agreement contains "the possibility of a first step in what might be a carefully laid plan for a superstate cartel." Since a government cartel "is no less reprehensible than a cartel...