Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary of State Marshall wrote: "Enduring political harmony rests heavily upon economic stability." Under Secretary Dean Acheson,* speaking in Cleveland, Miss., was a little more obvious. Said Acheson: "When Secretary Marshall returned from Moscow he did not talk to us about ideologies or armies. He talked about food and fuel and their relation to industrial production ... to the peace of the world. . . . The facts of international life mean that the U.S. is going to have to undertake further emergency financing...
...that the pressing struggle between communism and Western Democracy was not on a military plane or even (except as a means to an end) on an ideological level. It was a struggle between the U.S. and economic anarchy-a war which the U.S. must wage with food and fuel. On the outcome of that struggle depended the survival of the democratic world and the world's future. It was not only the world's prime ministers and premiers who turned to the U.S. The young turned their pinched and inquiring faces westward. If the U.S. failed them, their...
Eugene DuBois (rhymes with new choice) got interested in the fuel-consumption processes of the body in 1911, when medicine was just waking up to the interrelation between physiological processes and disease. He and famed Physiologist Graham Lusk were the first in the U.S. to use the calorimeter (a device that measures the output of body heat) on human subjects. The modern basal metabolism test, which measures the rate of body processes by measuring oxygen consumption, is a lineal descendant of the DuBois calorimeter...
...early work dealt a heavy blow to the old wives' injunction, "feed a cold and starve a fever." He found that as body temperature rises above normal (fever), the rate of metabolism goes up rapidly; thus more rather than less fuel (food) is needed. During World War II, as a Navy captain, he put his knowledge to work by helping to develop the airman's "G-suit" and electrically heated clothing. At the moment, as head of the Physiology Department at Cornell Medical College, he is trying to find out why women who wear open-toed shoes...
...these substances and has learned how they work. But he wants no one (not even the eager Sugar Research Foundation) to get the idea that he knows the whole story of sugar. If he did, he could answer a question that stumps all medicos: just how does sugar fuel the body's metabolism...