Word: charcoaling
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...fuel situation is tight. Last winter Tokyo shivered. Each family is allowed eight 60-lb. sacks of coal or charcoal a year. Cooking gas is limited to seven liters a month. For the first part of the month a family can cook. After the 20th of the month people try to eat with friends, buy black-market coal or eat uncooked food. Since 1942, the Government has been trying to lift the Hokkaido coal production through "voluntary" recruiting of white-collar workers. Many clerks have been forced to work as miners...
...thought of sleek Argentines purring over the pampas at a prewar clip while U.S. motorists were rationed and Brazilians burned charcoal sparked a widespread resentment. The Washington Post called the deal "snubbing our friends and favoring our enemies...
China's rugged mountains were more than a match for FAU's trucks, and a single trip of 300 miles sometimes took 40 days & nights. Through necessity, members of the Unit became expert mechanics. When gasoline got scarce, they laboriously converted their fleet to charcoal...
...Hutchins thus revived the theory, widely held before 1939, that a harsh peace breeds another war. If he thought no men were beasts, there were plenty of others who thought otherwise. Their feelings were aptly expressed by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Cartoonist Dan Fitzpatrick. whose charcoal lines often speak louder than words...
...heat of the Red Sea, he sat in his tent, scorning a cabin (and wisely avoiding the ship's low overhead). Mustachioed desert warriors, armed with daggers and clad in brilliant abbayat, roamed the deck. Arab servants squatted in every corner, butchered sheep and cooked them on glowing charcoal braziers. The destroyer's commander had declined the King's offer of enough live mutton for the whole ship's company. But the King had plenty for himself, his party, and for a banquet of spitted laham-mashwy and rice pilaff for the ship's officers...