Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colorado Fuel and Iron Corp once Rockefeller-controlled, has repeatedly made U.S. labor history. The blackest page was the "Ludlow Massacre" in 1914 when company police and state militia set fare to a tent city of striking workers killing 33. The nationwide uproar forced the company to change its labor policy set up a company union...
...mission hospital is the reservation's showpiece. Salsbury has four assistants (three of them Chinese) and has trained scores of Indian nurses. He also runs a high school, a home-economics school, an ice plant, a power plant, a coal mine (the mission digs all its own fuel...
...waste at West Edmond is common to most fields. For lack of storage tanks, pipelines and nearby markets, operators have always "vented," i.e., burned off in flares or simply released, great quantities of natural gas. Aside from the loss in fuel, this practice has caused an even more important drop in underground gas pressure, by which much oil is brought to the surface. In West Edmond alone, venting last year reached an estimated volume of 250,000,000 cubic feet...
...generals and admirals scanned the news of strife and stress in the world and took a worried look at the armed forces' fuel tank. The tank was all but empty. The Army Air Forces were down to a 90-day supply. The Navy has less than half its operating needs. With the U.S. now using as much petroleum as the entire world consumed ten years ago, oil companies had scrambled for bigger shares of the civilian trade, and the services were being squeezed...
...production for the armed forces, the estimated amount necessary to meet minimum needs. The oil will be taken out of the already tight civilian supply (5,100,000 bbls. daily against a demand of 5,700,000). To civilian users this meant that the anticipated winter shortage of fuel oil, and other fuels, would be that much worse. But the armed forces would not be operating on starvation rations...