Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Forces' announcement especially caught the eyes of airmen: 1) that the propellerless, kerosene-powered Shooting Star is in mass production (at four Lockheed plants and one operated by North American Aviation plants) and 2) that U.S. engineers have overcome the inordinate appetite of jet engines for eating up fuel. The P-80 has range enough to accompany bombers on all but the longest missions...
...process of liberation, France's transportation system was crippled. After long undermaintenance, France's machinery needed major repairs. And the Allied military effort prevented major diversions for repairs, fuel or raw material. In the Paris area half the workers were unemployed. Germany had kept Frenchmen reasonably well by making them work for her. But the Allies had not yet found a way to let France work, even for them...
...Reporter Earl Banner zipped into Montreal, shot a quick glance around, then sat down and whipped off a dispatch for the Boston Daily Globe and the New York Times. Gist: Canadians are living the life of Riley; there are no shortages of meat, butter, cigarets, liquor, fuel, women's & children's clothing. In fact, said Reporter Banner, "rationing has inflicted just one inconvenience" on Canadians-they have to tear out stamps...
...story was quickly qualified. The planes, it turned out, had strafed Berchtes-gaden's rail yards-four miles from Hitler's house. Some pilots dropped their auxiliary fuel tanks (which usually explode when they hit) near the castle. Hitler may have been scared-if he was home. The squadron leader had never heard of Berchtesgaden before last week; to him, it was just another kraut village. But Berchtesgaden, like Tokyo's Imperial Palace, is now a place where U.S. planes wander like tourists, taking snapshots and committing nuisances...
...passed by . . . different sects, [then] by a series of eight articles in the Christian Century under the general title: 'Can Catholicism Win America?' [TIME, Jan. 22], These articles bristle with so many false and misleading assumptions and implications . . . that they are bound to prove highly inflammatory. Adding fuel to the flames, Dr. Roy Ewing Vale, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, recently began . . . a . . . crusade [TIME, Jan 29]. The campaign is gathering momentum. If it continues to do so . . . it will not be long before the hooded figures and flaming crosses will again appear in our midst...