Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brehon Somervell authorized the Canol project without consulting the Navy (or any other department), spent $134,000,000 on it, used up some 200,000 tons of scarce material, wasted manpower and supplies when "four tankers . . . could have carried in one trip more 100-octane gasoline, motor gasoline and fuel oil than would be produced by the entire Canol project by Jan. 1, 1945. . . all because of a disintegrated military setup under which coordination cannot be compelled...
...miles from the target. (The only Allied fields meeting these specifications are on Ceylon.) The blow was a bitter one for the Japs. Scorched by the Dutch, the refinery had been restored to something like its old capacity (18,000,000 barrels a year), reputedly was turning out aviation fuel as well as other petroleum products desperately needed by the enemy. Superfortressmen reported they had hit it fairly and squarely, thought it might take a year to put it back together again...
...rafters, with a blower to distribute the hot air by means of ducts in the walls and registers in each room. Stewart-Warner has not announced the cost of such a central heater but estimates that a one-room unit will cost $20 to $30. It also estimates that fuel costs will be no higher than those of the oldfashioned furnace. The company also plans to adapt the burner for fuel oil and natural...
Natives helped him. One supplied him with rice and other food in his hideaways. He had a small lens which he used as a sunglass to light fires. He learned to squeeze the oil of coconuts and use it for cooking fuel. He shaved once a week, hus banding a scanty supply of razor blades. After a while "they almost pulled my face...
...world's biggest ice manufacturer, City Ice & Fuel Co. of Chicago, last week reported that its share in this record business has brought it a record gross-$24 million (including income from two breweries, fuel and refrigerator sales) for the first half of 1944. (In all of 1940 City Ice grossed $25.7 million.) On Sept. 1 City Ice will retire all its preferred stock: $12 million worth, paying accrued dividends of $1.62½ a share. But record business also has brought fantastic demands. Frantic calls from iceless areas have required it to ship from California to Texas, from Florida...