Word: petrol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were staggered by the Eighth Army's size, power, organization and mobility. Roaring and rumbling bumper-to-bumper for miles on end were convoy after convoy of tanks, armored cars, Bren-gun carriers, lorries full of troops, petrol, food and ammunition, motorcycles, staff cars and ambulances, red-faced tankmen in black berets, Indians, Scots, Tommies, New Zealanders, Australians and Americans. all directed with incredible precision...
...London stage thrived more lustily than it does today under acute difficulties. Where last year there were 16 shows, last week there were some 30. Audiences may have bus and blackout headaches, may grouse because seats cost from sixpence to four shillings more than they used to. But with petrol rationed, jaunts are few. With the liquor shortage, parties are fizzles. So cinema & theater offer the readiest escape...
Where Gort is now he will have no use for decorated casks. His white charger is now a bicycle on which he wheels himself around rubble-strewn streets where busses no longer run. Petrol is too precious to use even in a general's automobile. Gort's post will require all his attention, all his talents, all the fortitude of his quarter of a million people...
...moving and down-moving transport. Here the Russians have utilized everything to get stuff up: even brown, shaggy Tibetan camels are lined through the valleys. Mules in stupid groups mingle on the road, slowing up U.S.-made trucks ably driven by Red Army drivers. The strange smell of Russian petrol is mixed with horse, mule and camel manure and the natural pleasantness of the hills...
...country Britons write, mentioning lovely gardens, usually ending up offering: "Make this your home while you are here." Officers have picked up, and like, the afternoon-tea habit. They are fluently using general slang such as "Browned off," "Good show," "I take a very poor view of that," say petrol for gas, use R.A.F. expressions like "gen" for general information, make constant use of "actually." Many visit R.A.F. stations. They greatly admire the fighter, coastal and bomber commands...