Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quick Shift. From Paris had flowed a generous measure of the ideas that nourished Western democracy. Were Parisians hungry enough to forget their heritage of freedom? Jeannette Vermeersch and Maurice Thorez were betting that they were. Frenchmen everywhere, nearly as food-and fuel-conscious as the women of Les Halles, last week heard Communists making down-to-earth campaign speeches with little mention of Marxist ideas. By stressing the black market that fed the rich and starved the rest, Party Boss Thorez hoped he could make enough Frenchmen forget the less immediate but not less important issues involved in this...
...agreed with West Coast industrialists that selling to Big Steel offered "the highest possible degree of assurance for the continued operation of the plant." WAA brushed off the bid of Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp., saying that the proposed $2 per ton royalty to the U.S. would probably not cover amortization of the Government's investment...
Stone Mountain was well lighted: cans of inflammable fuel had been placed in niches in its rounded mile-long face, to form a fiery cross some 300 feet high. It was visible for many miles...
...Ottawa's official ears. Lesser problems, as whether it is better in the North to sleep raw in a sleeping bag or to wear pajamas, were not settled at all: the men disagreed. The men of Musk-Ox did agree that: 1) biggest problem is maintenance of fuel supplies for snowmobiles, which carry 40 gallons, eat it up at a two-miles-a-gallon clip; 2) Canada's Eskimos* "are the friendliest, most honest people I ever met, but, man, they're dirty...
...rocket that was fired last week weighs five tons empty and carries eight tons of fuel. The tanks for the alcohol and liquid oxygen which it burns hold 2,500 gallons, and occupy more than half of the total length...