Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fuel-and-light costs and rents-two of the six basic items in the index-stayed put in June; both food and clothing went up two points, miscellaneous items a point and a half, home furnishings and services three points...
Heads Up. On a blistering morning last month, a small army of Tudeh pickets deployed at the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s plant in Abadan on the Persian Gulf, and paralyzed one of the world's biggest refineries, chief source of the British Navy's fuel. Their Communist-trained leader, Najafi, had just given officials a 16-point ultimatum asking better pay, housing, transportation and hospitalization for the company's 70,000 workers (about half of Iran's industrial labor). When the company refused to talk, the pickets beat up would-be strikebreakers, confiscated company...
...Wine, Old Bottle. In Hollywood, somebody stole Calven Walsten's car, returned it with a new fuel pump, new fuel line, new tire, a note of apology...
...many a German in occupied Berlin the only things worth thinking about were where to get tomorrow's food and next winter's fuel. But students are much of a piece the world over. Even at the Russian-controlled University of Berlin they had time to think and bull about more profound matters...
...dollars a year, when his land yields anything. When it fails, as it does so often, he gets into the statistics as one of the two million famine victims. In his ignorance, he cannot see the need for scientific methods of agriculture, and continues to use cow dung for fuel instead of fertilizer. In his poverty he cannot afford to spend time in learning, nor rupees in buying anything to aid his production. He is born in a small bamboo shack, and after about thirty hungry years (if he is fortunate) he will die there...