Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pearl Harbor got past this week's raids with little damage done to shops, drydocks and fuel storage, the Fleet can still function in force, minus only the striking power of ships and aircraft lost to bombs and torpedoes. But if Pearl Harbor is grievously damaged, the Fleet, or large units of it, may be forced to pull back to the Pacific Coast...
Ashore at Rosslare people saw a great flash. They thought the light's fuel had blown up. They put out in a lifeboat. In the kitchen of Tuskar Light they found Patrick Scanlon, dying of injuries. They found William Cahill under a pile of debris, unhurt. Above, beside the light, they found Peter Roddy, unconscious. Tuskar Light still shone the way into Rosslare for the skippers of dumpy mail boats...
...there had been war two months ago, there would have been starvation. If there should be war now, we might find ourselves without fuel. . . If war breaks out here our people will die unprotected from bombs. Those men who have stopped me from doing what I should have done ought to be hanged from lampposts...
...battle pitches a tent of smoke and dust over itself. Into the murk new forms rush. Supply vehicles, naked of protection, dart squarely into the mixup, make contact with tanks which have run out of fuel or ammunition, and, if they are not crumpled, bounce out again. Command cars dash in & out. Ambulances go in undaunted, and their crews run about hunting wounded...
...plans call for many another type of ship. On the Maritime Commission schedule are fast 17-knot tankers, whose speed is no great advantage in peacetime-tankers are seldom in a hurry-but vital in war, when the Navy doesn't want to wait for its fuel. Also scheduled are 195-ft. seagoing tugs, barges made of concrete, small boats of all varieties...