Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...widely regarded as twice the official 1.1 trillion cubic meters), and as oilmen probe the bottom of the North Sea for what may be even larger deposits-one big one was hit last week off the West German island of Borkum-gas is becoming Europe's new glamor fuel...
...investment houses-including Manhattan's White, Weld & Co., both the London and Paris Rothschilds and West Germany's Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank-formed a Luxembourg-based company called Pipeline Finance to raise as much as $1 billion over the next eight years to bring the new fuel to European households and industry. For the small investor, a consortium of British, Dutch, German and Belgian banks has just created an open-end mutual fund, Intergas, that offers participation in the oil, equipment, transport and construction companies that are already starting to profit from the gas boom...
...from the pass, high-flying B-52s from Guam had blasted Mang Yang with bombs the night before. Once past the pass, the guards relaxed, and the convoy-the first since the end of May-rolled on into the beleaguered town of Pleiku with vitally needed food, ammunition, fuel and steel airstrip planking for South Viet Nam's tense and threatened central plateau...
...Ramstein, where he touched down at 6:05. Waiting for him was an agitated reception committee, including a representative of the French armed forces, who stalked away with the plane's baggage-175 undeveloped photographs, 28 of them containing detailed closeups of France's main hydrogen-bomb fuel plant at Pierrelatte...
Further away from production (perhaps seven years) but potentially more important is Chevrolet's prototype of a turbine-powered truck, the Turbo Titan III. Its engine is lighter, quieter and longer-lasting (350,000 miles v. 250,000) than conventional diesels, but fuel bills are costlier. Among its many innovations: "dial steering" by which a driver guides his truck with two small wheels mounted on a panel in front of him, similar to the "wrist-twist" system now being tested by Mercury. Chrysler Corp. is field-testing turbine cars but is undecided whether to market them...