Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this impasse, Oil Tsar Ickes gave his answer last week: he asked motorists in 16 Atlantic States voluntarily to cut gasoline consumption one-third. To see how voluntary reduction works, Ickes also asked 19 large oil retailers to compile weekly retail-sales reports. Hot-headed Harold Ickes will get even hotter if the figures show the noncompliance everyone expects. Probable upshot: gasoline ration cards (or a reasonable facsimile) by fall...
Left. By the late Walter Edmund O'Hara, Rhode Island's once-wealthy race-track tsar, who bet on the ponies himself: $193.86 in Rhode Island, an undetermined amount in Massachusetts...
Duck-billed Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, has emitted some strange noises, but his latest squawk made U.S. motorists really jump. Secretary Ickes, now U.S. Oil Tsar, threatened the arrest of "jackrabbit" starters who needlessly burn up gas for the sake of fast getaways, car owners who fail to keep their old "oil-burner" crates tuned up to efficient combustion...
Charles XII of Sweden invaded Russia in 1707 to punish Tsar Peter for raids on his Baltic provinces. Peter drew him beyond his depth...
...five weeks Napoleon tried to negotiate with the Tsar. In October the weary remains of the Grand Army, 80,000 men, started their fateful march home. Thousands died of hunger, thousands more were trapped by the Russians as Napoleon tried to get back across the Berezina River, where the Germans also had heavy losses last week (see p. 17). On Dec. 20, his troops recrossed the Niemen. They had left 300,000 dead or prisoners in Russia...