Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short on coal-500,000 tons a week short. Fuel Coordinator Harold Ickes advised the public: "Avoid panic . . . accept what coal is available . . . exercise the utmost conservation...
...Food and fuel must be provided for the winter-fruit and vegetables are plentiful now, tiding most districts over the fall. Coal must come from U.S. stocks. Germans would no longer have to use 300 locomotives and 15,000 coal cars to transport 12,000,000 tons of coal to Italy each year...
...clear gain for the Allies is the speedy but largely untried Italian fleet. Some 100 interned war vessels will now be available for patrol duty, if fuel can be supplied. Reportedly royalist to the core, the Italian Navy would probably be kept in the Mediterranean. But at least the ships would release U.S. and British units for service elsewhere...
...order to obtain the five gallons of gasoline established as the armed force leave quota, the registration number of the automobile used must be presented with the application. The certificate issued is so worded that the fuel allowance is to be used in this one car only...
...tank named Lulubelle is isolated during Rommel's African heyday. Under Humphrey Bogart's command, it staggers southward through sand and heat. Fuel and water run short. The crew picks up first a mixed batch of English and Empire men, later a Sudanese soldier (Rex Ingram) and his Italian prisoner (J. Carrol Naish), finally an arrogant young Nazi ace (Kurt Krueger). Half dead with thirst, this military mixed grill at last reaches an abandoned well, finds a choked dribble of water. There, as they die off one by one, the Allied men manage through a series of improbable...