Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany, got more than she gave: coal, rolling stock, iron & steel products, machinery, machine tools. The prime Italian demand on the U.S. will be for coal (she has been receiving 1,000,000 tons a month from the western Reich and Silesia). The day after the surrender was announced, Fuel Administrator Harold L. Ickes revealed that the U.S. is already sending undisclosed amounts of coal to Italy. Only the future would reveal how much oil and gasoline the U.S. must now add to the total going abroad...
...waters 1,250 miles from Tokyo (TIME, Sept. 13) sounded like an anticlimax. According to the communiqué finally issued last week by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet: 80% of little Marcus Island's military installations, seven twin-motored Jap bombers, hangars, fuel and ammunition dumps, shops and living quarters were destroyed; an enemy trawler was sunk. After pounding the 740-acre island for nine hours from the air, losing two fighters and one torpedo plane, the U.S. task force, commanded by air-minded Rear Admiral Charles Alan ("Baldy") Pownall, retired...
...jumped him two grades since April. A tank expert, he won his spurs fighting the Japanese in 1939. Some two years later his columns decimated the Italian Army in the Don loop, continued to race into the Ukraine until they bogged down in the mud and ran out of fuel. The Red Command forgave him. When the hour struck for the summer offensive, Popov received command of the crucial Bryansk front...
...South America are increasing, but will not ease the civilian gasoline pinch because: 1) war requirements will have to be met first; 2) South America has no excess refinery capacity now to take the strain off overloaded U.S. refineries; 3) the U.S. expects to use South American oil to fuel any large-scale offensive in the Pacific because production in California, now fueling the Pacific operations, cannot be increased sufficiently to supply a big push...
Arturo Toscanini helped Italian war prisoners improve their minds by sending to internment camps a good part of his private library, full of the favorite fuel of Axis bonfires...