Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reason for the order was the failure to stop a week-old strike of New York's tugboat men, who haul in a major share of New York's daily supply of food, coal and fuel oil. The workers had agreed to arbitrate their demand for higher pay and shorter hours; when the operators refused, Mayor O'Dwyer pulled the switch...
Already Labor's Minister of Fuel and Power, Emanuel Shinwell, onetime tailor, speaking for the new mine boss, the Government, had warned of "drastic action" against wildcat strikes. Said he to Scotland's pitmen: "Nationalization is not intended primarily to benefit the miner. There is the coal consumer to be considered, the interests of the nation, our export trade and all that...
...Gaulle knew the Communists planned to step up their pressure against him. His idea was to beat the Left coalition to the draw by getting out and letting them try to form a government during a midwinter food and fuel shortage...
...from Tokyo, scouted the U.S. West Coast from Vancouver to Los Angeles and got home again. So say the Japs. Early in July 1944, they claim, their A26 flew a record-breaking 10,160 miles nonstop in 57 hours, over a closed course* in Manchuria, and landed with enough fuel for another 1,870 miles...
Fifth Air Force technicians who found the A26 (one of the only two built) on an airdrome near Tokyo are inclined to believe the claim. Notable feature: fuel tanks cover 75% of the A-26's wing span, carry nine tons (3,219 gallons) of gasoline, accounting for some 54% of the plane's gross weight...