Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston, a meeting of the New England Emergency Fuel Committee was held. Governor Duller of Massachusetts and Governor Winant of New Hampshire were present, and the other New England Governors sent representatives. John Hays Hammond, who was Chairman of the late U. S. Coal Commission (1920-23) which drafted a survey of the industry and made recommendations for preventing strikes, was elected Chairman of the New England Committee. Plans were laid for educating the New England public to the use of bituminous coal. Said Mr. Hammond...
...Commander Lansdowne's order, Lieutenant Commander C. E. Rosendahl mounted the ladder, made his way down the keel to unload fuel. Fifteen men were left...
...long," said Governor Fuller, "our section of the country has stuck to anthracite while other sections never use it." "Anthracite" said Mr. Hammond, "is a luxury and not to be indulged in at too great a cost. We have plenty of substitutes" ?meaning bituminous (soft) coal, coke, fuel-oil. That was the lesson Governor Fuller desired to have expounded...
...they reached Etah, they found that heavy winter storms had pared down the beach and piled it with boulders until it was impossible for the planes to take off from land. This cut down their cruising radius from 1,000 to 700 mi. and made necessary a food and fuel way-station betwen Etah and Axel-Heiberg Land. During the past fortnight the planes scoured Ellesmere Land for a safe site and thought to have found one in Flagler Fjord. They left some fuel and oil, flew back to camp for more, returned and found a grinding field...
More and more often you hear men of Science declare that, as animal life crawled out of the water world in the beginning, so shall man, highest animal, some day return to the sea, prayerful, hungry, seeking food, fuel, riches. Gone is "Mother" Earth with other myths. Ocean they say, is the mother element...