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“One of the dinner guests, a gas-station proprietor with a liking for bow ties, chats with his customers next morning: ‘Have you heard about the large convoy of troop ships going to Alaska? Friend of mine who really knows says they’re leaving Wednesday night.’”
"One of the dinner guests, a gas-station proprietor with a liking for bow ties, chats with his customers next morning: 'Have you heard about the large convoy of troop ships going to Alaska? Friend of mine who really knows says they're leaving Wednesday night.'"
Marie Hansen for LIFE
"In their first gas-mask drill the WAACs took two minutes to get their masks adjusted." Fort Des Moines, Iowa, June 1942.
“In their first gas-mask drill the WAACs took two minutes to get their masks adjusted.” Fort Des Moines, Iowa, June 1942.
"In their first gas-mask drill the WAACs took two minutes to get their masks adjusted." Fort Des Moines, Iowa, June 1942.
Women wearing gas masks clean a blast furnace top at a Gary, Ind. steel mill, 1943.
Women wearing gas masks clean a blast furnace top at a Gary, Ind. steel mill, 1943.
Jessica Hill / AP
Jose Echevarria delivers gas to a station that was completely out in Ellington, Conn. on Feb. 8, 2013. Many stations in the area are out due to a pending storm poised to dump up to 3 feet of snow from New York City to Boston and beyond beginning Friday.
Oren Ziv / Getty Images
A post office worker shows to an Israeli child how to wear a gas mask at a gas mask kit distribution station in a mall Jan. 31, 2013, in Pisgat Ze'ev, East Jerusalem, Israel. Israel remains on high alert after the Israeli air force reportedly launched an airstrike Jan. 30, on a convoy that Israeli officials said was carrying weapons from Syria to Lebanon on the Syria-Lebanon border.
Louafi Larbi / Reuters
Smoke rises above following demining operations at the In Amenas gas plant January 20, 2013. Algeria said on Sunday it expected heavy hostage casualties after its troops ended a desert siege, but Western governments warned against criticising tactics used by their vital ally in the struggle with Islamists across the Sahara.
Not originally published in LIFE. Empty empty gasoline cans, reportedly used by SS troops to burn the bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun after their suicides in the bunker, Berlin, 1945.
Not originally published in LIFE. Empty empty gasoline cans, reportedly used by SS troops to burn the bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun after their suicides in the bunker, Berlin, 1945.
Digital Globe / Handout / Reuters
The Amenas Gas Field in Algeria, Oct. 8, 2012.
AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta pauses during a news conference in Rome, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. Panetta confirmed that American citizens are among the hostages taken by an Al Qaeda-linked group that seized a gas field in Algeria, calling the action a "terrorist attack."
Jeff Chiu / Associated Press
A man pumps gas at a Chevron gas station in San Francisco, in this Aug. 7, 2012 file photo. The average price of regular gasoline jumped in California from $3.86 a gallon on Tuesday to $3.94 on Thursday, according to the website GasBuddy.com.
Navy photo / CMCS Michael Ard
Weapon Intelligence Team members in Afghanistan training to investigate IED blasts, complete with simulated blood. They also use sophisticated gas chromatographs and mass spectrometers to try to trace explosives to their source.
Lenny Ignelzi / AP
Gas prices approach $5.00 a gallon at a Shell Station Monday, Oct. 8, 2012 in Encinitas, Calif. Gas prices across California have risen dramatically in the past week.
Lam Yik Fei / Getty Images
An anti-Japanese protester throws a gas canister while demonstrating over the disputed Diaoyu Islands, on Sept. 16, 2012 in Shenzhen, China. Protests have taken place across China in a territorial tug-of-war that is becoming increasingly worrisome for regional stability.
Costco was one of the retailers that saw sales rise higher than expected in June. June is the second biggest shopping month of the year. (Larry Downing / Reuters)
Shoppers at Costco in Fairfax, Virginia, January 7, 2010. Costco Wholesale Corp on Thursday reported a better-than-expected nine percent rise in December sales at stores open at least a year, helped by an increase in gasoline prices and stronger foreign currencies. REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS)
Michal Fludra—Demotix/Corbis
Diving Deep. An early shale-gas well in Poland
Dmitri Kessel—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
The caption that accompanied this image when it appeared in LIFE: "Great refinery at Abadan produced high-octane gasoline that helped beat [WWII German Field marshall Erwin] Rommel. These are superfractionators, huge stills that boil off the separate components of petroleum. Biggest refinery in Middle East, Abadan has a capacity of 400,000 barrels a day, over three times that of the famous U.S. refinery at Baton Rouge, La. Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. employs 40,000 Iranians, many trained in its own Institute of Petroleum Technology. It has built its own city beside the old town. Iranian workers are usually honest and as industrious as heat permits."
Dmitri Kessel—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
The caption that accompanied this image when it appeared in LIFE: "Rashid-Bin-Shaddad, native skilled worker, stands in front of three 'traps' which separate gas from oil. Arabs who work in oil fields are paid well, live better than those who do not."
NASA / ESA / CFHT / CXO / M.J. Jee and A. Mahdavi
This composite image shows the distribution of dark matter, galaxies and hot gas in the core of the merging galaxy cluster Abell 520, formed from a violent collision of massive galaxy clusters. Abell 520 resides 2.4 billion light-years away from Earth
Marie Hansen—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
1942 | Row upon row of WACs (Women's Army Corps members) don gas masks for a training drill at Iowa's Fort Des Moines. Originally published in the September 7, 1942, issue of LIFE.
Not originally published in LIFE. Training with gas masks in Hawaii, early 1942.
Not originally published in LIFE. Training with gas masks in Hawaii, early 1942.
Frank Scherschel—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
An American corporal stacks cans of gasoline in preparation for the upcoming invasion of France, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, May 1944.
Marie Hansen—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Members of the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps, commonly known as WAACs, don their first gas masks at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, in June 1942. The female troops were famously praised by General Douglas MacArthur, who called them "my best soldiers."
Justin Sullivan / Getty
A man pumps gas into his car at the Gas & Shop gas station in San Francisco, California.
Jeff Riedel for TIME
Murrelle runs two hotels in the middle of gas country that are full of drillers, and he’s building another unit. He's added dozens of new employees
NASA / Reuters
"Ring of Fire "
A dense cloud of loop-shaped gas erupts from the Sun's surface. Solar prominences, as this occurrence is called, can loop thousands of miles into space and can persist in the Sun's corona for several months. The largest known prominence, an extension over 430,000 miles — roughly equivalent to the star's radius — was observed in 2010.
Paul Sakuma / AP
High gas prices posted at a Shell gas station outside of Yosemite National Park in Yosemite, Calif.
Natalia Kolesnikova / AFP / Getty
A sign reading "Gas!" in Novy Urengoi, just below the Arctic Circle in far northern Russia
Tom Mihalek / AP
A sign advertises the price of a gallon of regular grade gasoline at $1.98 at a gas station in Collingswood, N.J.
BP Exploration, Alaska / AP
A central gas facility located in the Prudhoe Bay field on Alaska's North Slope, which was proposed as a starting point for an Alaska Gas pipeline to the Lower 48 states.
PAUL SAKUMA/AP
High gas prices are shown in front of a gas station in Portola Valley, Calif
Abdalghne Karoof / Reuters
A Free Syrian Army fighter wearing a gas mask, carries his weapons as he walks past a damaged tank, after seizing a government military camp used by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, near Idlib, June 13, 2013.
“Nitrogen mustard, a cancer-killing drug related to World War I poison gas, is dripped into cavity where a patient’s cancerous lung has been removed.”
"Nitrogen mustard, a cancer-killing drug related to World War I poison gas, is dripped into cavity where a patient's cancerous lung has been removed."
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps with gas masks, Iowa, 1942.
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps with gas masks, Iowa, 1942.
Gabriela Sanchez / AP
Firefighters work as a house burns after a gas tanker truck exploded on the highway in front of the house in the Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec, early Tuesday, May 7, 2013.
AFP / Getty Images
Passengers wait to receive medical attention after inhaling sarin gas on a Tokyo subway on March 20, 1995
Nir Elias / REUTERS
A worker walks near an oil rig belonging to Zion Oil and Gas in Karkur, northern Israel, Oct. 17, 2010.
Steven Senne / AP
Fueling up at a gas station in Brookline, Mass.
Dramatic cumulus clouds billow above a Texaco gas station along a stretch of Route 66 in Arizona, 1947.
Dramatic cumulus clouds billow above a Texaco gas station along a stretch of Route 66 in Arizona, 1947.
AP
Hattiesburg Police officers talk to onlookers at a damaged gas station in Hattiesburg, Miss. after an apparent tornado that moved through area on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013.
Jessica Hill / AP
Vehicles wait in line as gas is delivered to a station in Ellington, Conn., Friday, Feb. 8, 2013.
ESO/MPE/Marc Schartmann
A simulation of how the gas cloud may break apart as it approaches the black hole
AFP/Getty Images
Algerian Islamists clash with security forces during a protest against the decision taken by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to allow French fighter jets to fly in Algerian airspace, in the capital Algiers on January 18. Islamist hostage-takers at a remote Algerian gas field on Friday demanded a prisoner swap and an end to the French military campaign in Mali, a report said.
DigitalGlobe
The Amenas Gas Field in Algeria, Oct. 8, 2012.
AP / DigitalGlobe
A satellite image provided by DigitalGlobe shows the Amenas Gas Field in Algeria, which is jointly operated by BP and Norway's Statoil and Algeria's Sonatrach.
REUTERS/NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage
This full-field image of the nearby dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is shown as released by NASA May 12, 2011. The Hubble image reveals a sequence of steps in the formation and evolution of stars and star clusters, evident in the glowing gas surrounding bright stellar clusters.
Allison Joyce / Getty Images
Crowds wait for free gas at the Bedford Avenue Armory in the Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 3, 2012.
Frederic J. Brown / AFP / Getty Images
Prices posted at a gas station where the fuel is selling for over five dollars a gallon on March 16, 2012 in downtown Los Angeles, California.
Shannon Stapleton / Reuters
Gasoline prices are seen at the Lukoil gas station in South Plainfield, N.J., Sept. 12, 2012.
Sean Gardner / Reuters
A man and a woman walk through flood waters on St. Roch Ave. as Hurricane Isaac makes land fall in New Orleans, Aug. 29, 2012. The two were trying to reach a local gas station to retrieve supplies.
Lucy Nicholson / Reuters
A man paints a price sign at a gas station in Los Angeles, California.
Juan Mabromata / AFP / Getty Images
YPF gasoline tanks in the Argentine town of Río Gallegos, around 2,500 km southwest of Buenos Aires, on Oct. 23, 2011
Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images
Californians are frustrated with gas prices that have spiked above $4 per gallon, but few admit to price shopping or changing their driving habits
Mike Groll / AP
Greg Miller fills his Toyota Prius with gasoline in Colonie, N.Y.
Jeff Riedel for TIME
Leaving gas land Concern over drilling led Cindy Copp to plan a move
Marco Garcia / AP
People fill up their gas tanks, Thursday, March 10, 2011 in Ewa, Hawaii as residents brace for a tsunami expected after a massive earthquake in Japan.
Bob Thomason / Corbis
An oil and gas drilling rig off the coast of California
Reuters
A local, wearing a gas mask, holds a banner reading 'oppose garbage incineration, protect green Guangzhou' as she protests outside government offices in Guangzhou.
Melik Baghdasarian / Photolure / Reuters
A new gas pipeline is seen near the Armenian settlement of Agarak, near the Armenia-Iran border, on March 19, 2007
Nabucco
The Nabucco gas pipeline
Sergei Chuzavkov / AP
A gas-pressure gauge indicates zero at a snow-covered transit point on the main pipeline from Russia in the village of Boyarka, near Kiev, Ukraine, on Jan. 3
Michael Conroy / AP
Gas prices below $2.00/gal. are posted at a Marathon station in Brownsburg, Ind.
Bill Pugliano / Getty
Gas is $2.79 at a BP station in Royal Oak, Michigan.
Don Ryan, file / AP
A customer holds a gas pump handle at an Exxon station in Vancouver, Wash.
Kroll Ontrack Inc. / AP
A data drive that fell from the space shuttle Columbia when it was destroyed in 2003. During Columbia's fateful final mission, the drive had been used to capture data from a scientific experiment on the way xenon gas flows.
Nick Simonite / AP
The NRG power plant located just outside of Jewett, Texas, which is one of four towns competing for the new FutureGen power plant. Developers say the new plants would emit almost no pollution, turning coal into gas while capturing and storing climate-changing carbon dioxide deep underground.
Illustration by Francisco Caceres for TIME
How to take a gas holiday.
Paul Trickett / Royal Navy / AP
British troops taking part in an exercise on the southern Atlantic island of South Georgia in 2004. Britain is preparing a claim for sovereign rights covering gas and oil resources over a wedge of the Antarctic seabed.
Benjamin Lowy / Corbis
Exxon gas station in Houston, TX.
Victor R. Caivano / AP
A gas station attendant fills a car with ethanol in Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 3, 2007.
Justin Sullivan / Getty
A man pumps gasoline into his car at a Chevron filling station in San Francisco, California.
COURTESY OF UNST PARTNERSHIP
Storing hydrogen gas on Unst
GREG BAKER / AP
Motorcyclists gas up at a PetroChina station in Inner Mongolia
WHAT A GAS: The Fiat Tagliero service station
JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES
Gasoline prices have risen over the two-dollar mark in San Francisco
MARCI STENBERG/MERCED SUN-STAR/AP
GAS IN CALIFORNIA: The pain grows
YURI KOZYREV FOR TIME
GAS LINES: Iraqis in Basrah stockpile fuel in anticipation of war
MARIO TAMA/GETTY IMAGES
Police inspect a gas station in Richmond, Va., October 21
JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES
Gas prices rose an average of 23 cents per gallon over the last month
JOSEPH W. JACKSON III/WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL/AP
Gas prices at Tom's Shell in Madison, Wis., get out of hand
NASA / European Space Agency
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the "last hurrah" of a star like our sun, the outer layers of gas being cast off and leaving behind the burned out white dwarf, the white dot in the center.
NASA / Spitzer / Benjamin et al., Churchwell et al.
This image, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, shows the mysterious gas cloud G0.253+0.016, which is the black object on the left.
DigitalGlobe / Getty Images
The Amenas Gas Field in Algeria, Oct. 8, 2012. <br><br> Editor's Note: An earlier image transmitted by DigitalGlobe, published on TIME.com, misidentified the town of Amenas, Algeria, as the Amenas Gas Field where hostages are being held.
KJETIL ALSVIK / HANDOUT / EPA
An undated handout photo provided by Norwegian oil company Statoil showing the gas facility in In Amenas, Algeria.
Caption from LIFE. “Shooting off fire extinguishers, Alyea dashes up aisle of a lecture auditorium filled with Princeton graduates and their families. As he releases clouds of rapidly expanding carbon dioxide over the heads of his startled audience, he explains, “Gas smothers flame by keeping away oxygen, like this …”
Caption from LIFE. "Shooting off fire extinguishers, Alyea dashes up aisle of a lecture auditorium filled with Princeton graduates and their families. As he releases clouds of rapidly expanding carbon dioxide over the heads of his startled audience, he explains, "Gas smothers flame by keeping away oxygen, like this ..."
MANDEL NGAN / AFP / Getty Images
President Barack Obama walks past an oil rig to a stage to speaks at an oil and gas production field on federal lands near Maljamar, N.M., March 21, 2012.
Jessica Hill / AP
Inspectors assess damage, on Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012, around the area of a gas explosion that leveled a strip club in Springfield, Mass., on Friday evening.
Michael A. Mariant, File / AP Photo
This Monday Nov. 3, 2008 file photo shows one of Pacific Gas and Electric's Diablo Canyon Power Plant's nuclear reactors in Avila Beach on California's central coast.
Julio Cortez / AP
Jameel Brown walks away from a pump after filling up a container at a gas station in Newark, N.J., Nov. 2, 2012.
Damian Dovarganes / AP
Motorist Tony Klein fills up his 1967 Cutlass V-8 at a gas station in Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012.
Bikas Das — AP
Chief Minister of West Bengal state Mamata Banerjee speaks as she addresses a large rally in Kolkata, India, Sept. 15, 2012. Angry Indian opposition parties protested on Saturday against the government's decision to open the country's huge retail market to foreign retailers, a hike in the price of diesel fuel and reduction in cooking gas subsidies.
Al Bello / Getty Images
Chloe Davies at the Women's 200m Freestyle final during day one of the British Gas Swimming Championships at the London Aquatics Centre on March 3, 2012 in London.
Khaled Desouki / AFP / Getty Images
An Egyptian protester holds a sign reading in Arabic "Gas is for the Egyptian people not for Israel" in front of riot policemen outside parliament in Cairo on January 23, 2012.
Jewel Samad / AFP / Getty Images
A port under construction at Kharsavey for the Bovanenkovo gas field in the Yamal Peninsula, Russia, July 10, 2010.
Ben Margot / AP
A man bikes past signs of gasoline prices displayed at a gas station in Oakland, Calif., on Feb. 21, 2012
John Dominis—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Sinatra offers a light in Davis' crowded Golden Boy dressing room in 1964. "It was six a.m. before the party got to Frank's suite. But the evening was not over because Frank hadn't said it was over. 'Everybody have a little more gasoline,' he ordered. Everybody did." —From "The Private World and Thoughts of Frank Sinatra," LIFE's classic photo-essay on the superstar, published in April 23, 1965
Gemini Observatory Legacy Image
Gemini Observatory image of Kronberger 61 showing the ionized shell of expelled gas resembling a soccer ball.
Michael A. Mariant / AP
This file photo shows one of Pacific Gas and Electric's Diablo Canyon Power Plant's nuclear reactors in Avila Beach, Calif. More than a year before an immense coastal earthquake left Japan in a nuclear crisis, the discovery of a geologic fault about a half-mile from Diablo Canyon, one of California's seaside reactors alarmed regulators who say not enough has not been done to gauge the possible threat to the nation's most populous state.
Nasser Nasser / AP
A Libyan rebel refuels his vehicle at a gas station on the main road leading to the eastern town of Ras Lanouf, Libya.
Thomas Peter / Reuters
A woman holds a petrol-pump nozzle at a gas station in Berlin
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‘Take off the Silk, Put on the Khaki’: America’s First Women Soldiers, 1942
In light of recent reports of rampant sexual violence against women in America’s armed forces — with an estimated 26,000 cases of unwanted sexual contact last...
The Brink of Oblivion: Inside Nazi-Occupied Poland, 1939-1940
In the late 1930s and early 1940s, a German photographer and ardent Nazi named Hugo Jaeger enjoyed unprecedented access to the Third Reich’s upper echelon,...
