Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...European war was mainly a gasoline war; the Pacific is a fuel-oil war. To get fuel oil in the mighty fleets ranging the western ocean, the flow of oil of the whole world has been changed...
...hopes to meet all needs by simply stepping up fuel oil production, hopes to keep gasoline rationing at the present level. If this fails, then PAW may have to change refining procedures, i.e., make fuel oil & kerosene at the expense of civilian gas, once more pinch the motorist...
...Colorado's strike-bloodied coalfields in 1927 came trim, zealous Josephine Roche, Vassar-trained daughter of reactionary Financier John J. Roche, and heir to his minority holdings in the $10,000,000 Rocky Mountain Fuel Co. Behind her lay 17 years of hard social work. Ahead lay her big chance to "fight for tremendous things," i.e., to put her long-pent labor-relations theories to a practical test. Last week the test was close...
Miss Roche started out bravely. She bought control of Rocky Mountain Fuel, then rammed through the first mine union contract in Colorado history. R.M.F., which has lost $648,570 to date, began to perk up-principally on business from unions and liberal Democrats...
High-octane gasoline is a mixed blessing. Without it modern aviation would be impossible, but as every airman knows, its touchy inflammability makes it more dangerous than dynamite. Last week the Standard Oil Development Co. demonstrated a new high-octane fuel which it hopes will greatly reduce the fire hazard. They tested it by dropping a flaming match into the stuff. The match went...