Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This time the Allies have only about 25,000,000 tons afloat, but the world is their battlefield. Vast stores of fuel oil, rubber and other riches once available are in the hands of the enemy. So are the resources and shipping of Scandinavia, and, for practical purposes, of Spain" [TIME, June...
...aircraft guns opened up five minutes before the first bomb dropped. Two raiders were downed. Next day 18 bombers guarded by 16 fighters attacked Dutch Harbor again, while nine other bombers struck at Fort Glenn on Umnak Island 70 miles west, where two more raiders were destroyed. Dutch Harbor fuel tanks, a warehouse and the beached station ship Northwestern (used as laborers' barracks) were set afire. Casualties: one civilian, 44 Army & Navy personnel killed, 49 wounded...
...Castillo was not likely to lift his state of siege or change his ways unless the strongest pressures were put upon him. But already pressures were rising. Since his regime has chosen to renounce hemisphere cooperation, Argentina has faced fuel shortages, a mounting cost of living, labor unrest, an alarming budgetary outlook. Argentina's financial well-being today depends largely on the availability of foreign capital, which, with changing world conditions, might quickly flow elsewhere...
...Quelpart Island, off the Korean peninsula's southern tip, the Japs had an air base. In March-according to last week's reports-Korean workers suddenly attacked the base, set fire to four underground hangars, destroyed two big fuel tanks and 69 airplanes, killed 142 of the Jap crew and wounded or scorched another 200. Trembling with rage and fright, the surviving Japanese butchered every Korean on the island, some...
...freighting cannot be a war transportation cureall. Planes-unless they can be built in size and numbers still unforeseen-can only supplement, not replace, sea transport. Bad weather will ground planes, delay schedules. New and elaborate air-freight terminals are needed. Fuel in millions of gallons must be carried abroad and stored. Fresh thousands of pilots must be trained in big-plane flying techniques...