Word: sodafabrik
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...biggest Farben offshoots are the Bayer, Basf (short for Badische Anilinund Sodafabrik) and Hoechst companies, which account for 95% of the total business. All have paid for their postwar reconstruction out of profits, plus some $8,000,000 in ECA loans. All made their big comebacks under the guidance of I. G. Farben oldtimers, many of whom were once staunch Nazis. Typical is the Bayer company, biggest of the group, which suffered $40 million in war damages, emerged from the war with run-down and obsolescent equipment. Like other Farben units, Bayer lost its export markets, which once accounted...
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