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...Gist of the doctors' enthusiastic report...
Senator Moore, a rugged individualist who regards the "Ickes Pipeline" as a New Deal plot against U.S. oil producers, can be counted on to bring out all possible anti-pipeline testimony. Its probable gist: 1) the cry that U.S. and Caribbean oil reserves are dwindling is old stuff and has never come true; 2) the colossal war consumption of the United Nations has no relation to the amount of oil that the world can consume in peacetime; 3) U.S. meddling in increased Middle Eastern production will merely destroy the Western Hemisphere's markets-particularly those of Good Neighbors long...
...President most certainly would. Herewith, from a White House transcript, the gist of Franklin Roosevelt's answer:¶ls for Cat. The President had supposed somebody would ask that, he said. It all comes down, really, to a rather puerile and political view of things...
Honeymoon's End. This statement by the U.S. Oil Boss was still freshly inked in the current issue of the American Magazine when the whole problem of what the U.S. should do about oil came sharply into the foreground. The gist of a special report on the all-important subject, made by Ickes' Foreign Operations Committee of 13 U.S. oil executives and two British representatives, leaked out, via the New York Times. Then Honest Harold released the full text, which he had not yet read. With a bang, the honeymoon between Ickes and the oilmen was over...
...Zurich newspaper Die Tat (variously translatable as "The Act" or "The Fact") printed the fanciest tale of many a long week. Its gist: Adolf Hitler, looking down the pistol barrel of defeat, would neither surrender, die in battle, nor kill himself. Instead, he would gather a picked staff of Nazi Party chieftains. Wehrmacht generals and technical geniuses, then lead them in a giant submarine flotilla to Japan. There he would establish his German Government in Exile, boost Nipponese production to undreamed-of levels, and string out the war a few more years.* In due time, if all went well...