Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than 7,000,000 tons of coast-to-coast freight moved via the Panama Canal. Chief west-to-east items are lumber and wood pulp, canned goods, gasoline and fuel oil. From east to west the big items are steel and manufactured goods. Rail rates are from two to four times higher than water rates. On some bulk commodities this difference could add 25% to 50% to delivered cost. Recently this margin has narrowed, for many shipping rates have increased, while the railroad rates have...
...cars) to the railways. Shipping costs are 1.25 mills per ton mile by tanker, 3.2 mills by pipeline, 8.3 mills by rail. Pipelines cannot move all types of petroleum products, could not carry all the extra load anyway. Oilmen began worrying at once about moving next winter's fuel-oil requirements in the East...
...planes were shot down before they could do their work." Outnumbered numerically by at least 8-to-1, the R.A.F. planes in the end were further hampered by the necessity of falling back on Crete's airfields, so far away that most fighters had only 40 minutes' fuel over the battlefields...
Questioned, the sailors' grinning comrades told a fantastic story. In a soft. lifeboat, equipped with sails and an auxiliary motor, the missing men had stowed sextant and compass, fuel, a month's supply of food and water. Night before the Orinoco was seized, they slipped away, sailed quietly out of Tampico harbor, headed east across the Gulf. Presumably they hoped to clear the Florida Keys, make their way through the British blockade across 4,000 miles of open sea to an Atlantic port on the Nazi-occupied coast of France-a cruise some 800 miles longer than Captain...
...From Rio de Janeiro three Axis ships had sailed hurriedly just before the U.S. began seizing vessels. A few days later a Brazilian court granted Britain's Enemy Shipping Claims Commission an order holding two German and two Italian ships at Rio for nonpayment of fuel bills. Since the British commission had tried to get such an order since last June, it was plain what Brazil was up to. Police boarded the four ships to guard against sabotage...