Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in the teeth of half the nation winter flung an old, unheeded warning. Some people, unconvinced that the inevitable would happen, had not bothered to apply for fuel-oil rations. Some had already used up their quotas. And when winter's first frigid spell dropped thermometers toward the lowest point in 15 years (in Minneapolis) or 60 years (in Detroit) or any recorded year (in Pittsburgh), oil reserves ran dangerously...
...Connecticut's Governor Robert A. Hurley proclaimed a state of emergency on fuel oil in Connecticut, named a State Fuel Coordinator with powers to take needed action "to secure equitable distribution of fuel to all the people of Connecticut...
...Ever since the war began, East Coast gasoline stocks have been low for lack of transportation from oil fields. (The pipeline was not yet finished.) Moreover last week was a week of 1) Christmas shopping; 2) great cold over the U.S., when it was even more important to ship fuel oil than gasoline in what transportation was at hand...
...economics experts last September presented-and had approved by the Bolivian Congress-a draft of socio-economic proposals intended to raise living standards for Bolivians. The hopes that it provoked among the Indians added fuel to the flames of their dissatisfaction. Nazi agents, working on susceptible labor leaders, added their touch to the unrest. At the same time the Nazis urged the Government to take a firm attitude...
First the Dorniers, then dive-bombers roar down for the kill, and Captain Kinross' ship goes down with more than half her crew. Then, while the Captain and a few sailors, covered with fuel oil and sprayed with machine-gun bullets, cling precariously to a raft in the scummy water, the camera flashes back to tell the whole story of the ship...