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To: elbucko

I thought it was petroleum, not scrap steel.

120 posted on 08/30/2003 3:38:44 PM PDT by ninenot (Democrats make mistakes. RINOs don't correct them.--Chesterton (adapted by Ninenot))

To: ninenot

I thought it was petroleum, not scrap steel.

Could 'a been both. I do know the Japanese were interested in British refineries in Malaya that were supplying the RAF with 100 octane aviation fuel.

127 posted on 08/30/2003 3:58:59 PM PDT by elbucko (Calif. Haunted by the ghost of Bob Citron, the Democrat that bankrupted a county.)

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