Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside the house, under red-blossomed camellia trees, old women were cutting dandelions for spring greens-and coarser weeds for nanny goats carefully tethered by the front porch. Nearby were bamboo groves where old plants are grown for fuel and new shoots are cut like asparagus in April...
...drop was not only in foods. Some oil companies, in their fourth successive slash in the price of fuel oil, brought the total cut to about 33%. In two months lumber had felt its biggest price spill since war's end. Prices of secondhand automobiles, both "new" and used, came tumbling down. Dealers were so overstocked with "new-used" 1949 models in the higher-priced cars that they had cut their buying offers to 10% and 15% below list prices...
...German V-2 rocket was not a real guided missile. Its control apparatus was set before firing. If the rocket went in the wrong direction, all that could be done was to cut off the fuel supply (by radio) and bring the rocket down...
...Rocket" engine, with a 7.25-to-1 compression ratio.* This gives it 135 h.p. while using less gas than the old 115-h.p. motor. It can be stepped up to a 12-to-1 ratio-with increased horsepower and lower gas consumption-whenever the higher octane fuel it requires is available at gas stations...
...Meaning that the air-fuel mixture in the cylinder fills 7.25 times more space before it is compressed by the piston than after it is compressed for ignition by the sparkplug...