As 1939 drew to a close and war spread across Europe, the Associated Press ran a peculiar story: the Nazis were on the verge of converting coal into butter. Word had come from an xpatriate German scientist, Willy Lange, who had informed a group of American scientists. It was unsettling news because a warring country nth the technology to turn fuel into food might continue to function ven with its farmland captured and its population besieged.
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