Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexican delegate, Luis Padilla Nervo, wants to know if the scientists think it possible to operate under international authority and in international zones plants producing atomic fuels for both weapons and peaceful uses and to operate in individual nations under national controls secondary plants producing atomic fuel for peaceful purposes...
...confused with F.D.R.'s Four Freedoms. The air freedoms: 1) to fly over a foreign country; 2) to land in a foreign country for fuel or repairs; 3) to land passengers or cargo from one's own country in a foreign country; 4) to pick up traffic in a foreign country bound for one's own country; s) to carry traffic from one foreign country to another...
...Yorkers had suffered since V-J day from elevator tieups, two tugboat strikes that periled fuel and power supplies (see above), a war of nerves over a subway standstill, and now this. They had learned two things:1) how easily one union can put the brakes on the Big Town; 2) there was nothing they could do about...
Even in the comparatively unruffled coal nationalization program, Fuel Minister Emanuel Shinwell complained of hard going. He had spent a lifetime studying the coal industry from books, now found that it might take almost another lifetime to discover its practical workings...
Such developments had been long predicted, but usually by freewheeling prophets or Buck Rogers artists who ignored an obvious deficiency: power supply. No known fuel contained enough chemical energy to lift a useful payload above the atmosphere. But new knowledge of the possibilities of atomic power (details secret) has changed all that...