Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fuel. Coal production is better than originally forecast, but the Eastern Seaboard will still get only about 87½% of its normal supply. No talk is heard of rationing wood, the nation's No. 2 fuel supply, although the U.S. will be eleven million cords short of its needs. Fuel oil users in 33 states can expect rationing again...
...away, German troops in the path of the Russians relied on materials closer to hand. In a feverish hurry they laid extensive minefields, felled trees, dynamited huge craters in the roads, blew up bridges and rail trackage, destroyed any of their own transport which they could not fuel or repair...
...memory of their great nineteenth-century poet, Alexander Pushkin. Last week, to their tally of Nazi crimes was added confirmation of what the retreating Germans had done to the Pushkin shrine at the Sviatogor Monastery. The poet's grave was desecrated, relics were stolen, manuscripts were used as fuel. The monastery itself was bombed. Cried one Russian...
Omsk's Mayor is 44-year-old Kuzma Koshelev, an ex-peasant from White Russia. He has his troubles. Fuel must be hauled 200 to 1,000 miles. Nine brickyards turning out 86 million bricks a year have been unable to catch up with the housing shortage. Water is scarce. But matters have improved steadily through...
Then, you'll meet a fine group of professors. But we'll put you wise to them You'll meet Merriam in Fuel and Management. His bark is worse than his bite. As long as your old man uses Standard Oil, you're in. Then there is Arthur Hanson. He'll yell and yell and yell, and he'll tell you a tall one about a Peanut Wagon. Well, listen to him, because you'll soon find that you really are learning a lot of accounting. All you have to do is to get a Dist. in his course...