Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British battleship takes 840,000 U. S. gallons of fuel oil (enough to heat a house for 350 years) at a single loading; a four-motored bomber flying from London to Berlin and back takes 4,560 gallons of gasoline (enough to drive an automobile 75,000 miles...
...beside her with 95,000 barrels more. Early this week another arrived. And strung like a chain across the Pacific still more tankers wallowed along from the U.S. to Russia, right between the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido. If not actively fighting Fascism, the U.S. was helping to fuel the fight against...
Brazil's one-crop economy is as chronically plagued with surpluses as the U.S. cotton South. In the past ten years the Brazilian Government has bought up more than 70,000,000 bags of surplus coffee from growers, spent millions for fuel oil and labor to burn it. But last week, thanks to a U.S. chemist, it looked as though Brazil might make something on its coffee surpluses. Means: cafelite (pronounced ka-fay-leé-tee), a new plastic...
...octane (100% antiknock) fuel was a $30-a-gallon laboratory freak; now it runs about 13,000,000 barrels annually. The industry has steadily added to reserve stocks, last fortnight had 7,772,000 barrels socked away, highest ever, and 40% above a year ago. Yet a shortage loomed. Chief reason: the huge, unexpected demands of the U.S.S.R.. which has little high-octane refining capacity of its own. Already the Russians have bought thousands of barrels of U.S. aviation gas, may soon want thousands more...
Standard Oil (N.J.) President William S. Farish suggested a doubling of capacity last December. It will be harder now. Of 435 U.S. oil-refining plants only 15 now make aviation fuel. But even the 15 will have trouble getting steel and machinery. If started tomorrow, a high-octane cracking plant could not produce before August...