Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marshall outlined the State Department's program and added some "important principles": that outright grants should be made of such nondurable commodities as food, fuel, fertilizer; that transactions be in the form of loans when they covered capital equipment or raw material which could be used to produce the means of repayment; that in every case agreements should be made between the U.S. and each separate country, not between the U.S. and the 16 nations as a whole...
...from Foynes, Eire, 3,600 lbs. overloaded, with two extra passengers aboard, on his own hook, because some of his fares were babies "and they couldn't weigh very much." As the Sky Queen headed west into wind and ice, he kept no systematic check on his fuel consumption, let his crew stand watches as they...
Young (31) Harold Wilson, who was once (at 21) the youngest don at Oxford, succeeded Cripps as president of the Board of Trade. The new Minister of Fuel & Power, Hugh Gaitskell, is, like Cripps, a product of Winchester and New College. Last week Gaitskell advocated fewer baths as a means of saving coal. "Personally," he had told an audience in Hastings, "I have never had a great many baths myself, and I can assure those who are in the habit of having a great many that it does not make a great difference to their health if they have less...
Whitehall Court. Cripps himself would not suffer because of cuts in fuel for heating bath water. Part of his strict daily regimen is to bathe each morning at 8, in cold water. By that time, he has already been up nearly four hours. He gets up at 4:15, works in his Whitehall Court flat along the Thames Embankment until 6:45. Then he and Isobel walk briskly through St. James's Park. The rest of the day he sticks meticulously to a tight schedule, gives no more than the allotted time (usually 15 minutes) to each interview...
...save manpower, steel and fuel for the export drive he believes all-important, Cripps has cut $800 million from allocations for new capital outlay. This means postponement of many reconstruction projects dear to Socialist hearts; it also means that some sections of British industry will have to wait a long time before they are modernized...