Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Export-Import Bank authorized France to use $93 million (and Italy $32 million) in untapped reconstruction credits for emergency purchases of fuel. The Army bought $50 million worth of French francs to pay off the first installment on wartime debts for rent, transportation and food. The biggest lump sum was a preliminary divvy of $360 million in gold looted by the Germans: $104 million to France, $29.4 million to Austria, $4 million to Italy, $40 million to The Netherlands...
Manny Goes to War. No surprise was the main victim, Emanuel Shinwell, the bungling Fuel & Power Minister who last year gambled on a "green winter" and spectacularly lost. Since then most Britons have had less than no use for "Manny" Shinwell, but the Communists and the coal miners still love him. The Communist secretary of the Mineworkers' Union, Arthur Horner, tried to prevent his removal. Said "li'l Arthur," darkly: "I hope that some men who are popular with the miners and workers will not be sacrificed to please the Tories and Big Business." But when...
...State for War, which is not a Cabinet job and where high-level strategy and policy decisions will be made over his head. The red-tabbed generals are sure to dislike Manny, but last week this crack was going the rounds: "When he was at the Ministry of Fuel & Power, we had no fuel or power; now that he's at the War Office perhaps we'll have...
...sort of Government technicians which Economic Boss Cripps wants and which Attlee is giving him is exemplified by three of the new men under Cripps. They are youngish men of education and proved ability, whose political views are secondary. One is Hugh Gaitskell, 41, the new Minister of Fuel & Power, a Winchester-Oxford product, a coolly effective parliamentarian who as Shinwell's subordinate made a better showing than his chief...
...Duchess of Kent, beauteous widowed sister-in-law of George VI, was assured transportation in fuel-short Britain, come what may. She bought herself a bicycle (and two more for her son and daughter...