Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Campini's plane sucks air into its cavernous nose, compresses and heats it in the fuselage, ejects it through the tail-a rocketlike principle, though it is not a real rocket plane, since the propelling jet is not a rush of gases supplied by combustion of the fuel. Campini's plane weighs 11,000 lb., recently flew from Milan to Rome (300 miles) in 2¼ hours. Average speed was only 130 m.p.h., but the plane is a pioneer venture...
...ships such a saving may be doubly important, for they must not only buy but haul their fuel. Cargo capacity of merchant ships, cruising range of warships can be upped by a 25 to 40% economy of fuel. (A mercury-powered ship was planned in 1938 by Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., then postponed until mercury's problems were overcome...
Advancing the class schedule one hour would reduce the amount of heat needed in the dormitories in the evenings. The shortage was not so much in light, for which there was enough coal available, but in fuel for heating the college buildings and dormitories...
...grounds that it would be just added space to heat. Holden Chapel, the exhibition rooms and large lecture room in the Semitic Museum and the Germanic Museum were closed entirely. Columbia went Harvard one better and decided to close completely on Mondays in an effort to alleviate the fuel shortage...
...January 22, even though James J. Storrow, United States Fuel Administrator, had personally endorsed the plan, it was voted down by the student body 689 to 393. There were several editorials in the CRIMSON advocating the plan, but the general opinion among the student body was that fuel conservation ought to be left up to the individual students...