Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...encountered a sudden tropical squall, which snapped the mainmast before he could reef sail. Mary Harvey and Dr. Duperrault were slightly injured but not badly, as the splintered mast pierced the deck. Harvey was separated from the others by the fallen mast; then fire broke out in the fuel storage tank, spreading to the crumpled sails. Quickly, Harvey released the dinghy and a raft, ordered the others to abandon ship. Then he dived after them and swam to the drifting dinghy. He recovered René, unconscious while floating in an oversized life jacket, from the water. The five others...
...opportunity to steal food from fields and gardens, or even of scrounging the hills for edible leaves and roots. Winter also brings the need for warm clothes and warming fires. But as Red China enters its fourth winter since the Great Leap Forward, clothing and fuel are in nearly as short supply as food...
...recurring crises, it has substituted putsches. Since the 1958 uprising that cleared the way for De Gaulle's accession to power, the military crises have come annually, exercising a constant blackmail threat against government action it opposes. So mistrustful of the army is De Gaulle that its fuel, food, ammunition and other supplies are being doled out in quantities sufficient to last only a few days, after which any putsch would theoretically be "asphyxiated." Disaffection has gradually spread from the 400,000-man force in Algeria to the French army in France and in West Germany, where two divisions...
...bitter weather, is planning to install nuclear reactors at its outposts. The first reactor is being erected now at the air facility at McMurdo Sound, and others will eventually go to the South Pole and Byrd stations. The reactors will not only pay for themselves through savings on fuel (which costs 50 times as much as in the U.S. when flown into Antarctica), but will make possible research requiring big amounts of electric power and eventually open up the continent for flying through the long and black Antarctic winter...
...even that was not enough to keep the line from losing $5,200,000 in the first seven months of 1961. Meantime, the cost of maintaining the jets had become an unbearable burden. Six weeks ago, Hughes once again came to the rescue, guaranteed to pay Northeast's fuel bills. But when the CAB ominously wondered out loud whether he might be gaining control of the line illegally, Hughes abruptly withdrew his support...