Word: fuelless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the United Kingdom buckled down to work again. After three fuelless weeks, factories in the London area and the northwest could resume operations, but home use was still curtailed. Snow and ice were thawing, coal moving. Brewers were resuming beer production. Britons felt a little better...
...first time in months, coal smoke drifted lazily over Seoul; the Russians had come at last to Korea's fuelless capital...
...communications were not opened, all China would suffer. The great popular migration home would be delayed, galloping inflation would be harder to check, industrial reconstruction would lag. Above all, a bleak, fuelless winter would lie ahead. For North China's railways tap the nation's great coal mines. Only one of these-the Kailan fields, lying on the line between Tientsin and Chinwangtao -was open last week. U.S. planes and Central Government guards were on the alert to bar any Communist attempt to block Kailan shipments...
...hope came to householders along the Eastern Seaboard who have been shivering over grim predictions of fuelless days and heatless homes next winter. The Government—a year too late—finally gave orders for a pipeline last week...
...stopped dead. In another year the whole civil population would have been clothed in a cheap but serviceable sort of uniform. Flaps from pockets would have disappeared. At Alice Longworth's recommendation, steel had been taken out of women's corsets. There were gasless, meatless, sugarless, fuelless days. And the nation's cartoonists played day in & out with a colorful character named High Cost of Living...
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