Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best evidence that shipping is not yet seriously handicapping the Japanese is the fact that they have plenty of tankers. This is a fuel war, yet the Japs have enough tankers to use them for other military cargoes. The Japs have also converted whalers to be seaplane and landing-craft tenders, and they are now busily building a fleet of wooden junks, for coastal bay-hopping. Overland routes on the continent are beginning to relieve coastal shipping of part of its load. So far, Japan's shipping shortage is less acute than that of the Allies...
...smoldering bitterness of U.S. Negroes against segregation in the services flared into flame again last week. This time the fuel was laid by respected onetime Federal Judge William H. Hastie, dean of Howard University Law School. Explaining this week why he had resigned as Negro civilian aide to the Secretary of War, he charged the Army Air Forces was discriminating against Negroes...
...East Coast householders last week fretted and froze over the fuel oil problem, they at least had one big consolation: thousands of nonwar businesses were in trouble too. OPA's order to slash oil use up to 40% was playing havoc with hotels and laundries, stores and office buildings with their own private power plants, semi-war industries like paper mills and textile dyers. Examples...
Russian trains loaded with food, clothing and fuel chugged across a nine-mile corridor of destruction into Leningrad last week. The corridor had once bristled with steel and concrete pillboxes; it had been manned by crack German troops. Now it was littered with German dead (13,000 by Russian accounts) and dead thousands of heroic Reds who had lifted the siege of Russia's second city...
Sixteen companies are now producing 100-octane gasoline; Standard Oil of New Jersey alone is making over 60 times as much as it did two years ago. Said President Gallagher: "Iso-octane-the ingredient which makes this fuel so powerful-cost $30 a gallon when first used in the laboratories. By 1933 the price had dropped to $16. A year later 1,000 gallons were sold to the U.S. Army for $2 a gallon. Today it is between...