Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stouthearted Britons might well cry, with Dr. Johnson, "Old England is lost!" From London last week came dread tidings of a changing land: tj In a report deemed a "classic" by Minister Sir Guy Nott-Bower, the British Ministry of Fuel and Power launched an all-out attack on Britain's 28 million-odd cherished open fireplaces. The filthy things, said the report, not only waste coal and give no heat, but definitely bring on lung diseases. * Recommended: central heating with gas, electricity or "other systems that burn smokeless, solid fuel...
None of Vienna's eight cautious dailies mentioned the life-&-death news of food and fuel. Instead, they growled over old bones, squabbling about who was to blame for Anschluss (the German seizure of the country) eight years...
Freedom for Oil. With the oil industry he made an uneasy peace by promising to suspend price ceilings soon on all petroleum products. As oilmen have vociferously pointed out, the supply of most petroleum products is now equal to demand. The only shortage is fuel oil, and the coming of warm weather should ease that...
...Against the world's titanic misery, which would easily dwarf even the biggest achievement, UNRRA has achieved a great deal. It has helped feed, clothe and repatriate some 5,000,000 of 6,500,000 D.P.s in Allied Europe, has channeled some 2,000,000 tons of food, fuel, medicine, machinery, second-hand locomotives and other supplies, has begun its rehabilitation task by distributing hoes, plows and draft horses to destitute peasants of two continents. UNRRA's biggest rehabilitation project was progressing at breakneck speed in China, where U.S. Seabees and 150,000 Chinese laborers last week worked...
Post manager at Arctic Bay for the past three years has been chubby (over 200 lbs.), good-natured bachelor James Bell, who lives in one of the old-style Hudson's Bay houses: two bedrooms, a living room, kitchen, office. Nearby are a store, warehouse, fuel sheds and a "blubber shed," where dog teams eat company walrus meat; a meteorological station built by the U.S. Army but now manned by four Canadians. In the area are about 150 Eskimos; 25 miles to the south is an Anglican missionary...