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...formed under the auspices of I. G. Farbenindustrie, the great German dye trust, and it has prospered with the help of Farben skills and patents. Two years ago General Aniline-until then known as American I. G. Chemical Corp. -reorganized, and has since denied or minimized any Nazi affiliations. But it cannot seem to convince the U.S. Government that its ownership is in trustworthy hands...
...Federal grand jury in New York last week indicted Aluminum Co. of America, four other U. S. firms and seven of their officers for conspiring with I. G. Farben-industrie to discourage production of magnesium in the U. S. Claiming to have found "starling evidence of German influence," the Justice Department called the case its "most important in a year...
Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, at the time his engagement to Crown Princess Juliana was announced (TIME, Sept. 14), was a minor salaried employe of the great German chemical trust I. G. Farben-industrie Aktiengesellschaft, and a Nazi Storm Trooper. As the future Prince Consort of The Netherlands he became a naturalized Dutch subject and swore allegiance to his future mother-in-law Queen Wilhelmina (TIME, Jan. 4). This made no difference to Nazi Party fanatics who insist, "Once a German always a German!" Last week rampant Nazis were whooping against the ex-German and ex-Nazi bridegroom in almost...
...other nations over to their contention that Chile had been asked to bear too great a monetary burden, that there was no reason why Chile's natural nitrates should sell higher than the synthetic product. But unbudgeable was Dr. Hermann Schmitz of Germany's I. G. Farben-industrie (who last week became all Germany's financial mentor-see p. 15). When Dr. Schmitz suddenly revealed that Germany had placed a prohibitive tariff on Chilean nitrates the South American nation withdrew from the cartel. For one more night the other nations wrangled among themselves, then gave up. Competition...
...Germany, in the U. S., until in 1929 Chile provided only 25% of the world production of all forms of nitrates. A new threat loomed at Hopewell, Va., where Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. has built a vast nitrogen fixation plant which might in time outstrip even the I. G. Farben. The industry was overproduced. A long monopoly had been broken; the effects were manifest throughout the entire structure of Chilean economics. Last week, in Paris, form was given to the most recent, most ambitious, of all efforts to remedy this desperate situation. There was projected a $375,000,000 holding...