Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rundstedt's salient had shrunk to about half its maximum area. His troops in the western end were going hungry, running out of fuel, felling trees and laying mines in the path of the advancing Allies. The next move was up to the German. The preliminary accounting of this battle was still plainly in his favor. Time, the patient bookkeeper, had not yet presented him with a final bill...
...town. Shells poured in from all sides. Some 3,000 civilians huddled in cellars with the wounded. Food was running low-the Germans had also captured a quartermaster unit. Ammunition was dwindling-an ordnance unit had been taken too. Gasoline was down to tricklets -the Fire Brigade, to save fuel, did not keep engines running, clanked off to hot spots on cold motors...
...invoking some of its sweeping priority powers for the first time in the war, ruled that hereafter, if employers ignore WMC regulations while the Government is trying to get 300,000 more workers into war plants, WPB may snatch away the offending company's fuel, materials, transportation...
...serving as chief adviser to Dr. Wong. American steel experts are in the field, trying to step up China's tiny steel industry (annual production: 10,000 tons), which operates at less than 20% capacity. Alcohol experts strive to increase the output of the country's main fuel. In Washington Don Nelson's big job was to get more U.S. aid for a great ally's industrial renaissance...
Married. Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, 64, a widower since 1939, aloof, dictatorial publisher of Chicago's blatant Tribune; and Maryland Mathison Hooper, 47, sprightly, modish society matron, ex-Baltimore belle, longtime intimate of the Colonel and his late wife, recently divorced from Chicago Fuel Dealer Henry Hooper; both for the second time; in Chicago...