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Word: oraseni (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...cars per day. Reasons: 1) a shortage of rolling stock (Germany, whose own rolling stock is in very bad condition, is extremely slow in returning Rumanian cars); 2) shortage of coal from Germany to stoke the engines; 3) sabotage and inefficiency along the 170-mile stretch of railroad from Oraseni, on the Rumanian border of old Poland, where Rumania hands over the oil, to Jaroslaw in German-occupied Poland. Pretty well confirmed last week was the fact that German troops, reported moving last fortnight into this part of old Poland (TIME, Jan. 29), were there primarily to operate and police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMIC FRONT: Oil War | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

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