Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...postponement and one cancellation featured the weakened sports action. The Jayvee swimming meet with Brookline High was cancelled when the high school team lost its swimming pool to the fuel oil shortage and had no practice pool. A squad match with William was postponed...
...million details which range from the imposition of a broad fiscal policy down to reducing the number of milk deliveries; it calls for action in any sudden civilian crisis (such as the Eastern fuel shortage), involves umpiring any major dispute between warring Government agencies. It touches U.S. economic life at its periphery and at its core, in a year when that life is rolling along at the fastest clip in history...
...pounds faster, pumping blood . . . where its oxygen is needed. The lungs do their part by quickened breathing. Blood pressure goes up. Adrenalin, which is nature's own 'shot in the arm,' is poured into the blood stream. Sugar is released into the blood to act as fuel for the human fighting machine. . . . [The soldier's ] blood clots more readily. He loses temporarily the sense of fatigue even though he may have been dog tired...
With the oil shortage threatening to close school doors at Boston College and several local high schools, temporary relief was obtained yesterday when the Navy released some of their reserve supply of the precious fuel for civilian consumption. Harvard seemed reasonably free from danger of a freeze. Exhaust steam from the Cambridge Electric Company, which warms Crimson buildings, is coal-generated, and so far not closed off by war conditions...
Only enough fuel to last till tomorrow was on hand at B. C. and the other schools were even nearer closing. The empty bunkers throughout the Boston area yesterday caused Governor Saltonstall to call on Petroleum Administrator Ickes for the emergency help...