Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's Minister of Fuel, dour Emanuel Shinwell, balefully noted that some capitalists were lifting up their heads again. Austin Motors' Leonard P. Lord had charged that the Government's February auto production estimate of 10,000 was 2,000 more than the truth. Government estimators were under orders to "paint a rosy picture," said Lord. To the Leeds Labor Council Shinwell made an answer which was Labor's frankest public statement of its attitude toward nationalization of industry...
With the river valley his only market, Clayton first floated oil drums downstream to Iquitos as rafts tied together with vines and buoyed by balsa logs. Later he got barges, now has river tankers. During the war he sold gasoline, kerosene and fuel oil as far down the river as Manaus...
...writes Ingersoll. It was not even "a successful sacrifice play." When Bradley went ahead on his great sweep down through Saint Lô and east and north beyond Paris, the British "simply moved along the coast of France" from Caen to the Belgian border. Had Bradley been given ample fuel supplies, Ingersoll is sure, the European war would have been over in 1944. But Eisenhower, "sympathetic" to the British, listened to Montgomery, who also wanted extra fuel supplies, and the war dragged on through another winter. "History had called for a Supreme Allied Commander . . . making at least horse sense. Such...
About the time Communist Karl Marx finished writing Das Kapital, Capitalist Charles Pratt began selling "Pratt's Astral Oil." A high-grade lamp fuel, refined in Brooklyn from Pennsylvania petroleum, it became world-famed. Until Edison made his improvement, no one could read the Communist Manifesto, or anything else, under a mellower light. Onetime grocery clerk Pratt eventually joined up in Standard Oil with onetime bookkeeper Rockefeller. When he died in 1891, Pratt was Brooklyn's richest citizen, a solid, sharp-faced, goateed, philanthropic Baptist. To his six sons and two daughters he left an 800-acre estate...
...less now than in prewar times when his income was measured in pennies. He often eats only two meals a day-one of rice and one of congee (millet or rice gruel), with salted turnips and bean curd now & then, meat once or twice a year. On this fuel, if he is not yet slowed by tuberculosis or premature age, he can jog four miles an hour; at a canter, he can do six. There is a style to ricksha pulling. Author Lao Sheh (Ricksha Boy) says ricksha pullers take pride in an elastic, steady gait. Two Old China Hands...