Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once his men were in Africa, Rommel made them as comfortable as possible. Each man got his own green bivouac tent, with a floor, and a pack containing a camp stove, solid fuel, eye lotion, mouthwash, body powder, washing sets, flashlight, billfolds. Rations included beer, coffee, tinned and fresh meat, lemons, potatoes, onions. Hospitals were never short of anything. At the rest camps in the rear there were beer gardens, brass bands, playing grounds, movies...
...live as well as clerks and teachers. War has shaken the family system by scattering families, calling youths into war work, liberating women. People banding together to fight economic misery crowd together in houses and form eating cooperatives. People eat more in restaurants because of the high cost of fuel and servants...
...Ministry of Fuel, Light & Power, which has just begun trying to manage coal efficiently for the duration, has no power over wages. But last week the Mineworkers' Federation (union) accepted from an independent tribunal the first national minimum wage in the history of British coal: $16.60 per week...
...over. The average citizen found it hard to see any moral reason why the taxpayer should be soaked for a subsidy of up to $100,000,000 to make it cheaper for motorists to buy gasoline the Government would much rather they would not buy. For the time being, fuel oil prices were kept unchanged...
...civilians expect, but that word "positively" sounds a little too positive to me. You remind me of the fellow who once proved beyond any shadow of a doubt that a ship would never be able to propel itself across the Atlantic with steam because it would require more fuel than the ship could carry. He proved it with actual, unassailable figures. Positively...