Word: alcoholized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About Face. In Honolulu, the W.T.C.U. applied for and got a liquor license. Reason: it wanted a pint of alcohol to demonstrate the evils of drink...
...rocket that was fired last week weighs five tons empty and carries eight tons of fuel. The tanks for the alcohol and liquid oxygen which it burns hold 2,500 gallons, and occupy more than half of the total length...
When the rocket is fired, the first gadget to start is a compact turbine developing 580 horsepower and driven by steam from a chemical reaction involving sodium or calcium permanganate and hydrogen peroxide. This runs pumps which force liquid oxygen and alcohol into the bulb-shaped combustion chamber. Reacting fiercely, they shoot a blast of gases through a venturi ring at about 6,000 ft. a second...
...same goes for recording the anecdote that the King of Saudi Arabia told to one of our correspondents who interviewed him, or the terrible time one of our photographers had getting gas for his car in China. He finally had to settle for alcohol distilled from rice which, he was happy to inform F.Y.I., was sometimes redistilled, flavored with rock candy and served as a beverage at the local officers' club...
...cost slightly more than 4? a gallon to produce gasoline, which now sells wholesale for 6¼?. The company will be able to keep its cost of making gasoline down by selling the by-products of its process-1,164 barrels of Diesel oil and 70,000 pounds of alcohol a day. But if the price of gasoline should fall far enough, the profit may well disappear. RFC and the oil companies think the gamble well worth while: if the venture succeeds, it may eventually increase the potential gasoline production...