Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South Vietnamese have had more trouble with industry than with the land reclamation scheme. Most industries depended heavily on American capital, fuel and raw materials, and when the United States declared an embargo on trade with the PRG, most of those factories that had not already done so in the last months of the war closed down. But the Vietnamese are now developing substitute raw materials for those they once imported from the U.S. A factory that once made the plastic mats that replaced homemade reed mats in many Vietnamese households has been converted so that it can use native...
Kissinger regards the Pentagon arguments as faulty. For one thing, the Backfire can reach the U.S. from Arctic bases without mid-air refueling only if it conserves fuel by flying at subsonic speeds. Asks a senior U.S. official: "Why would the Russians develop a supersonic airplane to fly subsonic missions...
Harvard's "warm zone" experiment during Christmas vacation saved only half of official estimates in fuel and electricity costs, and flooding caused by burst pipes during the Christmas break will cost about $50,000, estimated figures released yesterday by a Harvard official show...
Richard G. Leahy, associate dean of the Faculty for resources and planning, said an operation "not as good as expected" limited the "warm zone" savings on fuel and electricity costs to only half of the projected...
TIME neglected the vital matter of fuel reserves. British Airways admits that the plane's fuel reserves are so low as to impair "regularity [and] punctuality of operation, especially to New York and Washington," but says that "if, in order to improve regularity of direct service to New York, holding fuel is increased by 15 minutes," payload will have to be reduced...