Word: ozalid
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...only were they fired, but their funds were frozen, they were barred from company premises and forbidden to communicate with their ex-employes. The five: Rudolph Hutz, $80,000-a-year vice president & director;Vice Presidents Hans Aickelin and William vom Rath; F. W. von Meister, manager of the Ozalid division; Leopold Eckler, acting manager of Agfa Ansco. Four worked at one time for I. G. Farben (German Dye Trust); all personified, said Treasury men, Aniline's German origins and ambiguous control...
They also made Aniline's wheels go round. Already harried by Government prying, Aniline protested that now its actual operations would be hampered. Those operations include much vital war work: 90% of the khaki dye for U.S. uniforms, Agfa Ansco films for Army & Navy, Ozalid blueprint paper & apparatus for many a defense plant...
...going by second-string men. Anyway, the Treasury would rather wreck the company than take further chances. Some things made Treasury's hair curl: movies of secret tests of new, experimental U.S. tanks at Aberdeen, Md. were developed by three German aliens employed in the Agfa Ansco plant; Ozalid division employes, many of them German-born, thoroughly inspected defense plants before installing blueprint processes, frequently went back to service the equipment. If no accidents or sabotage had occurred, it was not from lack of opportunity. Nor were last week's firings likely to be the last...