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...Allied bombers knocked out more than 60% of Krupp's Essen plants and equipment, and the work begun by bombers was carried on by the victorious governments. Russia grabbed more than 130,000 tons of valuable Krupp machinery. Britain carted away 150,000 tons of valuable scrap, systematically dismantled half of the remaining Krupp buildings. Krupp himself was tried at NÜrnberg, and sentenced to twelve years in prison. (Six years later, U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy commuted the sentence to the time already served...
...Zealand accepted enthusiastically, and signed the Tripartite Security Treaty (as well as the Japanese treaty). Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies beamed: "One of the great events in international affairs." Sir Carl Berendsen, New Zealand's ambassador to the U.S., said: "This is much more than a scrap of paper...
...output of cobalt, but Engineer Roberts says it works equally well with other low-grade ores such as nickel, copper and manganese (but not as yet with iron ores). Moreover, by reducing the amount formerly lost in slag, he says it can increase the pure metal recovered from scrap as much as 15% for copper, 70% for zinc. He predicted it could eventually cut the production costs of cobalt up to 80%, copper and nickel as much...
...Harvard station proposed a complete merger of the two stations, but Radio Radcliffe refused, feeling that girls would then receive subordinate positions. The growing Annex station later became even more daring, and decided to scrap all connections and thus end possible "domination" by the Network...
...rushed the newsmen with what looked like a sensational scrap of history from the secret archives. They were soon summoned back for the kind of session that is getting to be a White House habit-a "clarification" meeting with White House Press Aide Roger Tubby...