Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whom to Blame. For the chaos everybody blamed everybody else. Homeowners scolded fuel-oil companies. Oil companies blamed divided authority in Washington for confusion in deliveries. Government officials blamed 1) slow rationing boards, 2) citizens' failure to turn in ration cards to the oil companies, 3) the draining of oil from other Eastern areas to New York...
...Economic Stabilizer James Byrnes conferred with Harold Ickes, Leon Henderson, Transportation Director Eastman. Immediate result: none. His warning: "No hope for any lessening of the restrictions upon the use of fuel...
Fuelishness. In Philadelphia, the fuel rationing office for the North Side had to shut up shop, having neglected to ration itself some fuel...
...using up its fuel supply at an increasing rate, will gradually get hotter during the next ten billion years. By that time the earth's surface temperature will be lifted to about 750° Fahrenheit, hot enough to boil away the oceans, char organic matter, and melt tin, lead and zinc. Then the last of the sun's hydrogen atoms will be converted into helium. With no more fuel on hand, the sun will cool and fade...
...accounts for the sun. Further, it accounts for the energy of all the stars except the relatively cool "red giants." A star, in keeping with Bethe's theories on the sun, apparently gets hotter and brighter, "behaves very foolishly" toward the end, uses up the last of its fuel supply in a burst of glory and a "brilliant death...