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Leavy was talking about the magnesium cartel that Dow Chemical had operated
with Nazi chemical conglomerate I G Farben right up to America's entry into
the war. Investigations in the early 1940s by the Truman Committee revealed
that Nazi Germany had purchased large stocks of magnesium from Dow for use
in incendiary bombs. Dow had been selling magnesium to the Nazis for 21￠ a
pound while maintaining a 30￠ price in the US and apparently trying to shut
out the British.
"Our own Dow Chemical Company," said Congressman Rabant in 1942, "was the
sole licensee in this country and agreed to sell only a small amount to
England."
ロンドン空爆のマグネシウムはダウケミカルが供給した
イラク空爆の燃料は日本国が供給した。