Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief Night Owl (real name: Roxy Hamilton), a Manitoba legislator, let out a secret for which his male constituents might well have scalped him. Cree braves, said he, invariably predict a light winter; otherwise their squaws would make them get into the woods, cut fuel for the winter woodpile...
...their way forward. Their prime objective: the web of railroads over which the enemy could be reinforced-or retreat. This week, all but one inferior escape line into Rumania had been cut. Birds of ill omen hovered over the fringes of the German-held steppe -air transports were dropping fuel and supplies to stalled trucks and tanks...
...Fuel Minister Gwilym Lloyd George hastily laid new proposals before the industry, owners and miners alike. For him the miners had the same disbelieving disdain they accorded their own union leaders...
Most important, the line can usually be laid faster than an embattled army can advance. Last week in mountainous southern Italy, where regular fuel transport would have bogged down, Army pipeline engineers were impatiently waiting for Cassino to be taken so they could extend their system northward...
Willie in his roguish way Tipped Grandpa on the fire one day. Mother said "My dear that's cruel! But of course it does save fuel...