Word: oils
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...across the narrow Italian front he and his men were among the first to develop through-the-clouds bombing on a big scale (Belgrade and Budapest were among the principal targets). His Fifteenth went through all the ups & downs of shuttle-bombing from Russian bases, and smashed the Ploesti oil refineries in the bargain. Last year the Fifteenth acted as a strategic supporting air force for the final Russian advances...
...Three Bs. But Ulithi's chief function was to supply the fleet with "bomb, beans and bullets." In the anchorage floated the "crockery fleet" - concrete barges storing the million items needed by a thousand ships. Fast supply ships and slow tankers shuttled from the U.S. to Ulithi, bringing oil, meat, screws, tires and flour to these warehouse barges which in turn unloaded their supplies into carriers, battleships, cruisers, destroyers and up to 700 amphibious vessels...
...Petroleum Administration for War had bad news to tell: gasoline stocks on the East Coast may soon fall to the level of a year ago, a low point of the war; fuel oil for home heating this winter will still be short. On top of this, the petroleum industry last week predicted: total petroleum needs for the Pacific war will be greater than the requirements for a two-front...
What this seemed to mean was that the U.S., three months after V-E day, was still faced with an oil shortage. What it actually meant was that the character of the petroleum needs for war has changed. How well they are met will determine how much gas & oil civilians will get in the coming months...
...keep abreast of other nations in military research, 2) "get ahead" in international trade, 3) achieve full employment. Bush's scientists unanimously agreed that this could be accomplished only by federal subsidy. Among those who concurred in his report were representatives of the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Standard Oil of Indiana, Du Pont...