Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There was no mention of what these splendiferous palaces are costing the taxpayer, but whatever it costs is too much. Isn't the American stereotype ingrained enough without giving our enemies more fuel for their propaganda machine? All that the article proved to me is that we are furthering an edifice complex instead of true diplomacy...
Threading his way through a maze of PERT charts, Raborn could spot trouble in advance-at Sunnyvale, Calif., where Lockheed Aircraft Corp., prime contractors for the missile kept 9,000 men on the job, at the new plant near Sacramento where Aerojet-General Corp. was working on solid-fuel rocket engines, at the Groton, Conn, sub pens of the Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics Corp. From weekly progress reports he could tell where to pour on extra effort to break a prospective bottleneck. Contractors had a hard time keeping up with Raborn's knowledge of what was going...
...Electric Boat, three shifts worked around the clock, and the grim hulls bulged steadily into shape. All the while, their complicated, crowded quarters were worked over and improved. Because crews had to last out months at sea, there would be none of the stench of diesel fuel and battery acid that fouled the air of early submersibles. Into George Washington and Patrick Henry went 300-ton capacity air-conditioning equipment, air scrubbers and precipitants to remove irritants, and oxygen generators to enable the subs to manufacture their own habitable environment. Bunks were designed for comfort, no-lint skivvies procured...
...monsoon rains threatened to wash away his fields. Jagjit cannot afford to buy chemical fertilizer. He uses cow dung to manure his fields, but only during the monsoon, when the dung cannot be dried; the rest of the time he collects it in great mounds and uses it for fuel. "We know this is wasteful," he said, "but there is nothing else to burn." Joining his palms and gazing reverently upward, he murmured...
INDO-RUSSIAN OIL DEAL is being fought by U.S. and British oil firms in India. Russia will supply India with 1,500,000 tons of kerosene and diesel fuel at prices 10-15% below free-world oil prices. Western companies have countered with offer to reduce their prices 7½% to India...