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Kathryn the Great. Many months ago, Lewis seized on the Gas, By-Products, Coke & Chemical Division of his U.M.W., put an old & trusted henchman, Ora Gassaway, in top-sergeant command. Tough, unbeautiful Mr. Gassaway was only a top sergeant. Real boss was Daughter Kathryn, whom Lewis made secretary-treasurer...
...Coke & Chemical, known as District 50, took the field in skirmish order, leaping jurisdictional fences, rounding up new members for the Lewis camp. Said Kathryn blandly: "It is amazing how many things can be traced to a coal origin, with coke, chemicals, plastics and utilities as starting points." Workers in any of those materials, the Lewises reasoned, were fair game...
...workers (embalming fluids are chemicals), boatyard employes (varnish is chemically derived). She cast a soft eye on stump-pullers in Louisiana, drop-forge workers in Michigan. Early in the game she and Father John convinced themselves that the country's 3,000,000 dairy farmers were naturals as Coke & Chemical members. After all, milk contains casein, which is used in cosmetics, plastics...
...Paris industrial region the Germans had it pretty cozy. British air power had battered the French coast and pounded many a target in the provinces-power stations, chemical works, coke ovens, refineries, railroads and rail yards. But Paris had not been molested. At Billancourt, on the Seine just outside the city, lay the great Renault plant, which in the time of France's late 40-hour week employed 30,000 workers. Now it clanged away, making tanks, engines, planes and trucks for the Germans-the Russians had found some Renault-built tanks abandoned by the Nazis on the Eastern...
There is no lack of shortages. We lack pig iron and scrap iron, as a result of our former Far Eastern appeasement policy. We lack metallurgical coke except in a few spots. We lack rubber because, unlike Germany, we make our whole synthetic supply from petroleum, although there is no chemical reason why we should. It merely happens that the rubber patents are owned by the petroleum companies...