Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experts also found serious flaws in the work of Allied intelligence-primarily a failure to grasp the significance of the vast, interlocking chemical-oil-rubber-explosives complex, which flourished from a single, synthetic root...
Said the report: "While it is true that lack of gasoline alone stalled the German war machine . . . there is considerable evidence that, had synthetic oil, rubber and chemicals been considered as a single target group, the same results could have been achieved more expeditiously...
...strike on the Buna works at Hüls, never repeated, showed the vulnerability of the German rubber industry by reducing the Wehrmacht's stock of tires to six weeks' supply...
...general, there was no reason for U.S. industry to tip its hat to Germany. But in a few things, the Nazis had an edge. With synthetic rubber, for example, the Germans had slightly better methods of producing medical and surgical rubber goods. They had little to teach Detroit's motormakers. But they had new tricks to melt metals in vacuums and new electro-medical gadgets. As to how or when the Nazi processes and patents will be available to U.S. industry, the Federal Government has not yet made up its mind...
...Love the Machinery." Unions have been organized since the Communists took Kalgan. At the rubber factory, which makes bicycle tires and rubber boots and repairs automobile tires, I met the union chairman, Hsu Ping-yan, 48. He had posted this sign: "All members of the union must obey. . . . Keep everything in order and love the public's machinery and instruments as yourself. No smoking allowed. No rest in working time...