Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LIFE might well have looked over its back issues before feeding fuel to Goebbels and his gang. It might have recounted the enormous list of contributions to the war effort pointed out in its article on Yale, contributions which are being matched time and time again in universities throughout the nation. It might have shown how accelerated educational programs are turning out young doctors, engineers, research experts, administrators, linguists. It might have shown how American colleges are sacrificing their teachers, their grounds and equipment, their dances and their athletic events in the interests of the fight in which...
...meantime, the undeniable injustice of the taxes which discriminate to keep millions from voting goes on serving as fuel for the already overheated elements of discontent and Axis propaganda fire. Bilbo, Senator from Mississippi, where less than ten per cent of the citizens vote, was elected on a platform dedicated to ". . . raising more hell than Huey Long." He is keeping his word--and the fire he is raising has all America in a hot spot. "The Man," as the Senator fondly refers to himself, typifies the pro-poll tax bloc. Saturday, their filibuster technique led them into hiding from...
...Nelson Stepanyan, an Armenian dive-bomber pilot in the Red Air Force, was made a Hero of the Soviet Union, the Russians said that he had destroyed: 78 German trucks, 67 tanks, 63 anti-aircraft guns, 19 mortars, 36 railroad cars, 20 merchantmen and warships (including one destroyer) 13 fuel tankers, twelve armored cars, seven long-range guns, five ammunition dumps, five bridges. Once, wounded, he was forced to land behind the German lines, but guerrillas helped him escape...
More than 100 million Soviet civilians, faced cold and hunger as winter's first heavy snows fell last week. Russia has lost more than half its coal mines, 23% of its cultivated land. Fuel, food and clothes go to the Red Armies first. From Leningrad to the Pacific, women, oldsters and schoolchildren were cutting peat, hauling logs, straining every muscle to make good Russia's losses. Their achievements...
Russia's millions faced a comfortless, bitter winter, but probably few would actually freeze or starve. The people rejoiced that the Red Armies were well supplied with food, clothing and fuel, that the 20° and 30° frosts only a few weeks off would freeze the thin blood of the German invaders more quickly than their...