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Last week in London Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, director-general of the Royal Dutch-Shell group of oil companies, gave evidence of a world-spread conflict for oil sources and oil markets...
More Oil. Scientists have been agreed that nature long since ceased making petroleum by subjecting large deposits of organic matter to centuries of subterranean pressure. But Dr. Hans Tropsch of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (Mülheim-an-der-Ruhr, Germany) gave hope that nature is still building oil stores, by another process. Germans have perfected processes of manufacturing synthetic fuel oils by heating carbon (bituminous coal, lignite) in a stream of steam or natural gas, in the presence of certain catalytics including iron. Germany's fuel-oil supply now seems assured as long as her coal lasts. Dr. Tropsch pointed...
Last week a huge stone, hurling down from a partly wrecked tower, burst through the Chapel roof, obliterated the blasphemous mural of Wilhelm, and finally became motionless below the unscathed portrait of Jehovah...
...broad Unter Den Linden, stands the Wilhelm I Palace; and in it, last week, the wife of Wilhelm II took up her residence, as she recently threatened to do (TIME, July...
...Empress Hermine," as many Germans call this Princess in her own right, modestly occupied last week only four rooms of the old palace: bedroom, boudoir, sitting-room, bath. As a small earnest of Wilhelm II's great wealth, Princess Hermine brought with her two Mercedes automobiles...