Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made to a ravenous customer who demanded over a million gallons of gasoline a day-and who kept changing his address. By last week 700 miles of pipeline had been laid. From the end of the pipelines, tank trucks carry gas and oil 100 miles to distribution points, where fuel is transferred to five-gallon cans. Two-and-a-half-ton trucks take the cans to advance Army dumps...
...there are always special deliveries needed too; so gasoline also goes to the front in the bellies of the Troop Carrier Command's C-47s. Carrying fuel and other urgent supplies, the great ships sit down, one every 14 seconds, on narrow emergency landing strips sometimes only 50 miles behind the racing tanks. Soon railways will take over much of the burden...
...customer can choose any size of terminal. They range from one having just the bare essentials (lights, fuel supply, hangar and powerhouse) to the de luxe package for heavy international freight and passenger traffic, complete even to guest houses...
Liberated France was a tactician's triumph but it was a supply officer's nightmare. Paris alone (and in spite of her surprisingly chic appearance-see FOREIGN NEWS) needed 3,000 tons of fuel at once, 3,000 tons of food every day. Mountains of other supplies had to be moved on & off the Normandy beaches for the armies. By last week the Allies were hot & heavy after more ports to carry the load...
...Turned the German Carpathian line. ¶Snatched from hungry German fingers the rich Bessarabian grain harvest, threatened to snatch the whole Rumanian breadbasket as well as the oil wells that supply one-third of the Wehrmacht's fuel. ¶Deprived the Welirmacht of some 300,000 Rumanian soldiers. Most of the fight had gone out of these troops (except in Transylvania, where they took up an old feud against the Hungarians...