Berlin Goes "Ersatz.".

The article discusses Berlin, Germany's reliance on production of substitutes to reduce dependence on imports in 1934. It cites potatoes that yield alcohol mixed with gasoline and synthetic gasoline from German Dye Trust. Germany has allegedly decreed that its big lignite companies combine to finance, construct and operate a giant gasoline plant costing about 100 million U.S. dollars, causing the stock market to react with a fall of lignite share prices. The same method of financing is rumored to be applied to produce other substitute materials.