Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first is oil. Ever since the beginning of the war, natural oil refineries and stocks and synthetic fuel plants have been the primary R.A.F. target. The results were not too encouraging; the Nazis still seemed to have plenty of fuel to roll their tanks and lift their planes. But after the British had, at least for the time being, sewed up Iraq's oil, after the Germans had attacked one of their oil suppliers, Russia, after the Russians had done some damage in the Ploesti fields of Rumania, the oil barrage took on more point and more fury. Last...
...There is an acute food, feed and fuel shortage. Due to the slaughter of poultry, egg production this winter will be only one-third of last winter's. Wrote a farmer: "On many farms cows are too weak to rise and have to be lifted up." > Although the Nazis promised noninterference in Danish affairs, the Danish telephone exchanges, the railways and the police are controlled by the Gestapo...
Part of the Navy's big base at Newport (including fuel and munitions depots, training and torpedo stations), Quonset Point was in operation before it was officially in commission. For months seaplanes, ranging far & wide across the North Atlantic, have been based there. During the winter their maintenance crews had plenty of work outdoors at improvised moorings. Today their big flying boats are hauled ashore, serviced and housed in Quonset's great hangars...
...case of a forced retreat of Red Army units, all rolling stock must be evacuated; to the enemy must not be left a single engine, a single railway car, not a single pound of grain nor a gallon of fuel...
Railways have replaced neither worn-out rails nor worn-out rolling stock. Accidents increase. Matsumoto-san, the Japanese man-in-the-street, shaves in the morning with a dull razor (blades are scarce), rides to work on an overcrowded charcoal-burning bus (motor fuel is rationed), climbs long flights of stairs to his office (electricity for elevators is no longer available), eats his noonday meal,(after showing his rice ration card) and goes home to bed without even the comfort of his much-loved steaming hot-water bath (charcoal is scarce); and wonders about glory...