Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rearrangement of South and Central American haulage and supplies: 40,000 tons. (Chile, for instance, could get its fuel from Peru instead of California...
...there are about 100,000 deadweight tons of French flag tankers at Martinique." These ships (in addition to 50,000 Axis tons in U.S. ports), said the oilmen, would help the situation greatly if used "in transatlantic or Western Hemisphere service." And if & when the U.S. has to cut fuel and gasoline consumption, the report took it for granted that South America and Canada should order "gasless Sundays...
...Harold Ickes made it sound. The situation was serious, said other Government officials, but not alarming-yet. No one denied that there would be a shortage in the East because of the diversion of 50 tankers from U.S. coasts to help fuel Britain (TIME, June 9). But an exhaustive American Petroleum Institute report, which A.P.I, had submitted to Washington on the understanding that it would be kept secret, predicted that deliveries of oil to the Atlantic seaboard will be reduced by 8.8% this summer, by 15% next fall. The situation may ease after the first quarter of 1942, provided...
Social Responsibility. Said one report: "People must be provided with basic shelter, food, fuel, clothing and health services, even if all the people, including the rich, have to be rationed...
...Caribbean. She could carry 1,202 passengers, needed a crew of 643. But she never was entirely full, averaged only 450 passengers per trip. At an average $170 per passenger, each twelve-day cruise yielded about $76,500. Against this were operating costs of $90,000 (wages, food, fuel, general overhead at $7,500 daily), plus depreciation and interest of $28,200 ($2,350 daily). Result: net loss of $41,700 a trip. The loss to U.S. Lines was less than that. Under the Bailey-Bland (ship relief) Act of 1940, most of its losses will be paid...