Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intent on its own maneuvers. The object of the present dash is to carry out such) a maneuver as would be required if our fleet left Panama to meet an enemy approaching across the Atlantic. The aim is to convoy a group of repair ships, mine sweepers, food, fuel, hospital ships and the aeroplane carrier Langley to Culebra in order to establish an advance base. Then, in case of a battle, the fleet would not be obliged to return all the way to Panama for refueling...
...MacDougal (no relation to Professor William McDougall, the Oxford-Harvard psychologist), is in charge of desert laboratories at Tucson, Ariz., and Carmel, Calif., for discovering the processes by which plant life takes energy from the air and the sun. He aims to supplement both the food and the fuel supply eventually, by obtaining carbon from the atmosphere without waiting for the slow vegetable process...
...Corn burned for fuel in Kansas, ships idle, thousands starving in Europe, is not this proof of a certain insanity in the world...
Undertaking a long trip over Northern Africa, starting from its base on the South Coast of France, the giant dirigible apparently had used up most of its fuel when adverse winds blew it back to the African shore on the fourth day of its flight. With only fuel enough to run two motors, the dirigible was able to maintain intermittent wireless communication with French naval authorities for two or three days, while its Commander sought desperately to find a landing place in Tunis. The French authorities, with British and Italian cooperation, covered the sea with destroyers, the desert with systematic...
...struck particularly the students of the universities of Austria and Germany. Their parents are no more able to send them monthly subsidies. Teaching and other liberal occupations are paid in depreciated money which has no buying power. Students, there fore, are unable to buy food and to procure shelter, fuel, and, of course, books in reasonable quantities. Relief organizations help them to a certain but insufficient extents...