Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, Ickes' office gave Easterners their first clear oil painting of the future. Fuel-oil users will get "at least" as much oil to heat their homes as last winter, possibly more. Gas-starved Eastern motorists will get relief, too. Now that tank cars can be freed from the Eastern haul, gas & oil supplies can be equalized from the Rockies to the Atlantic. Eastern A-card holders will probably have their gas allowances upped from one and a half to two or three gallons a week, to use as they please; Midwest motorists will probably...
...Saves up to 35% in fuel...
...steam turbine is a simple machine that works like a water wheel, with jets of steam instead of water furnishing the power. Advantage of the high-pressure, high-temperature turbine is that it makes the blades spin faster and more powerfully with less expenditure of fuel. In the newest Navy ships, the steam, under pressure of 600 lb. per square inch, is superheated to 850° Fahrenheit...
...result of all this redesigning is a turbine which not only uses less fuel but is more rugged and simpler to operate than the old type, breaks down less often, has stood up superbly under the severest combat conditions from Iceland to the tropics. First installed experimentally in the Mahan class of destroyers, started in 1933, the new turbine is now standard equipment in most of the modern U.S. fleet...
...took a hard crack at "extravagant" claims that any number of planes could absorb most of the land & sea transport business after the war. OWI argued sensibly that the more planes there are the more ships, trucks and railroad cars will be needed to fuel and supply them. According to Civil Aeronautics Administrator Charles I. Stanton, more than two 10,000-ton tanker loads of gasoline would be needed to refuel enough Clipper trips from New York to England to carry the cargo that one 10,000-ton freighter could take across in a single voyage...