Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Questions. These small glimpses helped to clarify disaster on the grand scale. But they did not explain every thing. The Germans knew they were short of manpower and materials of many crucial kinds, especially airplanes, tanks and fuel. They knew the Soviet offensive was coming. Had they properly sounded the depths of their own weakness, accurately measured the potential of Soviet power...
Replied one destroyer captain: "Am low on fuel...
Cracked Burke: "We should refuel at Rabaul [the big Jap base], but I doubt if the fuel line connections would...
...models. The public's dream car is not expected to emerge for three years. Most likely it will weigh no more than 2,000 lbs., will operate on a high-compression, 90-octane gasoline engine that will save its owner from 20% to 25% of his fuel bill. Other dream-features: 1) better visibility, 2) pneumatic rubber springs, 3) photoelectric cells to dim lights automatically when other cars approach, 4) a rear-mounted engine for less noise, heat and odor...
...buzz-bomb which the professor finally produced is not a rocket (rockets are propelled by gases generated by their own fuel), but a jet-propelled missile which carries 136 gallons of gasoline, has a range of about 150 miles and a speed of 200 to 300 m.p.h. The length of its flight is regulated by a timing device which tips the robot into a 60-degree dive. Oberth presumably abandoned his rocket design because the necessary weight of fuel made it unpractical. Since his jet-propelled bomb is dependent on air, it cannot soar above the stratosphere like a rocket...