Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like most of England's stately, drafty homes, Cliveden is almost unsupportable in wartime. The great drawing room with its piano and organ has long been closed for lack of fuel, and there is no wood for fires in the bedrooms. Food rationing has shortened weekend guest lists; the servant shortage hampers housekeeping. For two years past, a Canadian military hospital has been established on Cliveden's grounds...
Died. Dr. Harry Augustus Garfield, 79, son of the 20th President, longtime (1908-34) president of Williams College; in Williamstown, Mass. He was U.S. Fuel Administrator in World War I, and responsible for the various heatless days, lightless nights, gasless Sundays of that...
Legion of Merit (newest U.S. medal). Navy, 20; Allies, 2. Sample-case: Water Tender Leo M. Savage, who "immediately after the explosion [aboard the torpedoed destroyer Blakeley'] secured the boiler fires . . . shifted fuel oil ... relighted fires . . . contributed to the absence of panic...
Last week a tone of desperate urgency crept into official pleas for more industrial and residential conversion from oil to coal for heating. James C. Richdale, chairman of the New England Council Liquid Fuel Committee, said: "We've got to quit talking about 75% [of normal fuel oil needs] we've got to tell the truth." The truth was that consumers may not get 50% of their needs...
...thought it would get more oil, only 20% of New England industry has converted to coal and still less conversion has been done by home owners. Two buildings that could have been converted are the State House and City Hall in Boston. Annual savings: 1.5 million gal. of fuel...