Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...economic development can be expected where coconut trees and fish are about the only resources? As for the failure to rebuild former Japanese industries, the U.S. could argue that none of them did the natives much good, since they were designed chiefly to help Japanese war plans-alcohol to fuel torpedoes, bauxite to provide the aluminum for airplanes...
...offensive without bogging down in the mud. But some 5.000 white soldiers have arrived from Lisbon to beef up Angola's 2,000-man regular garrison. Roberto's forces are also grouping for a showdown. He claims that he is getting financial aid from Tunisia to fuel his revolt but denies that he is getting any help from Ghana (the Portuguese have admitted that they made a mistake in claiming the capture of 71 "Ghanaians"). "The Portuguese have been in Angola for 500 years and have done nothing but kill us." he cries. "We won't rest...
Confident of victory, Sachs eased his foot on the throttle and coasted along the center of the track, conserving fuel and carefully steering clear of slower cars. "I spent my time," he said later, "wondering what to do with myself." Then, with only six laps left, Sachs's luck also ran out. A patch of white appeared on his right-rear tire. As he drove on, the patch rapidly widened, a sure sign that the rubber was wearing off and that a blowout was imminent. With only ten miles to go. Sachs gave up, conceded the lead to Foyt...
...moved north in 1939 to a beach colony of squatters at Dollarton, near Vancouver, B.C., and married again, this time an actress-turned-mystery-story writer, Margerie Bonner (The Last Twist of the Knife). The newly weds happily roughed it with coal-oil lamps, driftwood fuel and an outdoor privy. Lowry, a barrel-chested man with piercing blue eyes, drank, swam, drank, sang bawdy Spanish ditties to his own ukulele accompaniment, and drank. When the cottage caught fire, he was badly burned rescuing the entire manuscript of Under the Volcano, which came to be the one and only literary success...
During the postwar years, the consumer's gleeful use of credit for cars, refrigerators and other such big items helped to fuel a prolonged U.S. boom. Now the things that people go into debt for are changing. Housing and car buying loom less important as credit areas; installment buying is expanding much more in such areas as college education and fly-now-pay-later travel plans. Meantime, the Government, whose debt the consumer shares through taxes, is stepping up spending for defense and space...