Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the first chill winds of fall: > OPAdministrator Leon Henderson's statisticians pored over 43 years of Weather Bureau figures. They came up with an allegedly scientific map zoning 30 States according to climate for fuel-oil rationing...
...Deputy Petroleum Coordinator Ralph Davies telegraphed an emergency appeal to nine oil companies to cut gasoline loadings and boost fuel-oil shipments to New England. Reason: winter comes early and stocks there are dangerously...
...thinks about is getting his chickens home," said Admiral Boddam-Whetham's brother, an official in the British fuel ministry (three other brothers died in the army in World War I). "Being a sailor, he fears fog and ice more than any U-boat or Focke-Wulf. He is very reserved and hates to talk about himself...
...greatest adapters. How the underestimated little single-motored plane could get away with such power and maneuverability was a mystery for several weeks after Pearl Harbor. U.S. aviators soon found part of the answer (and made the most of it): no armor protection for pilot or self-sealing fuel tanks, therefore less weight. The rest of the story has come out gradually from examination of shot-down Zeros...
...engine, essentially a copy of the U.S. Pratt & Whitney Wasp with features of the Wright Cyclone and British Bristol Hercules, is used in many of the Zeros. It is a 14-cylinder, double-banked, radial air-cooled engine, rated 1,050 h.p. when run on 95 to 100 octane fuel. Workmanship is spotty; some parts are finely finished, others are very crude. The weakest point is the cooling system; cooling area per cylinder is under 1,000 sq. in. compared to 2,800 in the genuine Wright Cyclone. The propeller is a duplicate of the U.S.-made Hamilton Standard...