Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know Superman and Mickey Mouse, Germans know Kohlenklau (Coal Pincher), a funny-looking but evil kobold. His creator, egg-bald Berlin Cartoonist Hans Landwehrmann, endowed him with a bushy walrus mustache, a saucy apache cap. The little robber carries a huge thief's sack, crams into it precious fuel and food wasted by careless Germans...
...buildings were crammed with motor parts, tires, thousands of tons of food. The wood from opened crates, carefully salvaged for fuel and for building barracks furniture, covered a ten-acre field. Everywhere swarmed the unsung workers of the Army's rear-area establishment: quartermasters, engineers, ordnancemen, specialists of a hundred sorts...
...service condition, according to contract. Instead, cash settlements are being made. Except for a few whose yachts have been stripped of expensive gingerbread, few of the owners have balked. But many would just as soon have had the Coast Guard keep their boats for the duration. Restrictions on fuel and places to go are so tight that a pleasure boat is nothing but a liability...
...body that is best of all. Next best, a bit of wreckage. If there are no bodies, and no wreckage, and there is a little oil on the surface, you bottle some of the oil, take it home, and they either prove it is diesel fuel or say it is something else. We couldn't get any evidence. But we got credit for the sinking and I collected a D.S.O. That is the standard payment for a submarine; a friend of mine has three...
According to Sulzberger, ample evidence indicates that the weapon is a "crewless, radio-controlled aircraft, which, loaded to capacity with explosives and just enough fuel to get it to its target, can be accurately directed to its objective." Allied experts learned of the device and put the finger on its main weakness: complex launching mechanisms needed to get the projectile-aircraft into flight. Allied reconnaissance planes spied out the emplacements built to house the launchers, and bombers from Britain have been attacking the installations since last November...