3112.     ---------------.  [SCHROEDER, W. C.]  German Synthetic Liquid Fuels Industry.  United States Senate, 79th Cong., 1st ses., on S. Res. 36, June 19-25, 1945, p. 349-360.

        Account at the hearings before a special committee investigating petroleum resources of the visit of American technologists to, and their investigations of, the German synthetic oil industry in 1945.  It was found that German technology with respect to synthetic fuel was in advance of American technology, and research development had progressed so far and so rapidly that, even in the German plants, commercial application had not kept pace.  However, the opinion was confirmed that, on the basis of large operating units, American engineering practice could improve materially the process development and the operating status over German standards with a considerable reduction in costs.  It was thought that aviation-grade gasoline was being produced for about $0.16-0.25/gal.