Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lines assistant to Eddie Rickenbacker, told how the ten-day sweep of General Patton's Third Army across France had been serviced by hundreds of cargo planes shuttling back & forth from England. In the last stages of Patton's rush, 50 gallons of high-octane aviation fuel had been required for every 100 gallons of ordinary motor fuel laid down for Patton's tanks and trucks-but, Arnold added, "it was worth...
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...Fuel Oil is up because of better transportation distribution (chiefly pipelines). Production has caught up with military needs. If all the former oil users reconvert this winter, oilmen can supply the extra oil which will be needed, but only 30% are expected to reconvert...
Fourth, the lack of housing and fuel is beginning to be seriously felt as winter approaches. Some towns, like Ploesti and Campina, have been almost completely destroyed by bombing. The influx of Russian troops sharpened the housing shortage. As a result, the Rumanians are beginning to requisition housing themselves for their people...
Easier Way. But to engineers the chief point of interest was the bomb's simple power system. In the usual jet-propulsion machine, air is taken in at the front, compressed by a turbine-driven mechanical compressor (e.g., a fan), then mixed with fuel in a combustion chamber and expelled at the rear, the impact of the expanding air and gas, like a gun's recoil, giving the machine its push. But a compressor would have added greatly to the bomb's weight and complexity. To eliminate it, the Nazis...