Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hainan in the Gulf of Tonkin. U.S. intelligence says that there has been no recent buildup in these southeast concentrations. The Red Chinese air force, with some 2,000 jet fighters and bombers, is one of the world's largest, but is hampered by shortages of parts and fuel. And her navy is weak: she has 28 subs and about 170 torpedo boats; her largest ships are four destroyers...
...base. Reason: he did not want to be responsible-even inadvertently-for causing a racial incident. On the night of July 10, his training completed, Penn set out for home with two other Washington Negroes. They planned to drive straight on through, stopping only for food and fuel...
...that, the price increases have been scattered and without any ominous pattern. Some industries, such as chemicals, have had to rescind price increases because the market would not bear them. Though increases outnumber decreases, there have also been numerous price declines, for example in fuel, lumber, industrial pumps, electrical circuits, color TV sets. The wholesale price index, though an imperfect indicator, has stayed flat for many months. The more sensitive index developed by the National Bureau of Economic Research has been rising, and the consumer price index has been rising steadily too - but at a pace that economists consider normal...
Bomb for Bomb. No one in the American mission in Saigon expects Khanh to move against Hanoi unless he is assured of full American backing. "After all," noted an American, "we supply the Vietnamese air force. The bombs are ours. The fuel is ours." But even if the U.S. decided to change its policy and go along with a blow against the north, such an action would be precise and designed to minimize the possibility of further escalation. To discourage further subversion in the south, the first steps would probably be air strikes against Viet Cong supply lines...
Depressing Profits. The arrangement guarantees the kind of "forceful and rich development" that Founder Robert Bosch hoped for after his death. Now one of Germany's most diversified corporations (3,100 products), Bosch dominates Europe in the automotive-equipment field. From car radios to fuel injection pumps, its products go not only into such German cars as Volkswagen, Mercedes and Opel but into Italian Fiats, French Peugeots and Renaults as well. Bosch is also Europe's biggest refrigerator maker, manufactures other lines from hearing aids to motorized hand tools...