Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there had been no major Soviet offensive anywhere for six weeks. Swarming like ants all over their hundreds of thousands of square miles of retaken ground, the Reds multiplied and strengthened their supply lines, built new installations, brought up to the front great masses of guns, tanks, ammunition, food, fuel...
...Thunderbolts, escorting bombers over Germany, found the release mechanisms of their auxiliary wing fuel tanks jammed. Unless the empty tanks could be jettisoned at once, the fighters would have to break for home, their mission incomplete. Their wing pilots came to the rescue. At 300 m.p.h., one mile above ground, the wing men flew formation to within 18 inches of the lead ships, then batted the tanks off with their wingtips...
Production of food, clothing, fuel, raw materials and chemicals; manufacture of machines, weapons, ships, planes, parts (including packing boxes and paper); services such as running communications and transportation, keeping the people informed by newspapers, magazines, radio and cinema, heating and lighting homes, caring for the people's health and safety. Draft Boss Major General Lewis Hershey admitted that a 26-year-old soda jerker could be given a deferment if he was the only one in the community...
Apparently war, like nature, may sometimes imitate art. While browsing through British Admiralty files for historical background on the self-propelled two-man torpedo, I came across this 1912 cartoon. Alsop's Ale (the hero's fuel) was Britain's favorite brew in 1912-as well known as Bass is today. The resemblance between Cartoonist Quick's conception and the real two-man article of today (TIME, May 1) is uncanny...
...China and her allies could do little. The Japanese thrust into India had cut down the already thin trickle of supplies to the U.S. Fourteenth Air Force in China. Acute shortage of trucks to move fuel and ammunition made it nearly impossible to set up air bases close to the new front or to give adequate supply to front-line troops...