Word: blende
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...billion, six hundred million gallons of 199 proof anhydrous alcohol would be needed to make a 10% blend with the approximate 16,000,000,000 annual U. S. gasoline consumption. That this would relieve the problem of the agricultural surplus is indicated by the fact that to make it would consume all of the wheat raised in the U. S.; or on the other hand all of the oats, barley, rye and white potatoes; or on the other hand from one-third to one-half of the corn...
...House of Gurney, of Yankton, operating 500 filling stations over five western States, has pioneered with a. 2 ½% alcohol, 97 % gasoline blend, selling at the same price as the ordinary gas. . . . I have used it entirely since February, without any carburetor adjustments. It gives a sweet running motor. The alcohol has splendid antiknock properties. By keeping the engine carbon free it permits the use of third run gasoline, hence giving greater mileage...
...South Dakota legislature, lately adjourned, enacted a law permitting the blend to be sold in the State as legal gas; the Nebraska legislature has relieved the alcohol content of a blend from payment of the State gasoline...
Herbal Throat & Neck Blend...
Alcohol v. Gasoline. Two years ago the U. S. Bureau of Standards and the American Automobile Association conducted road tests to learn how blended alcohol and gasoline worked in motors. The decision was that alcohol-gasoline blends were less satisfactory and more expensive than pure gasoline with prices as they were. Nonetheless, farmers desperate for earnings have pushed laws to require mixtures of the two fuels. Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota and California have been lined up. The policy is to compel the use of home-produced alcohol in the blend or to forego taxes on alcohol used in motors...