Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Abroad garbage disposal is made profitable. The Rotterdam trolley system is operated by power generated at the incinerator plant. A large part of London's garbage will be taken by Henry Ford to burn in his English factories. Combustion on 1,000 tons per day will save him 50% on his fuel bills...
...rubles with which to pay wages, has had to print more. This is inflation. Last week Soviet officials prophesied that the new Stalin stores will catch so many rubles and return them to the Treasury that no more will have to be printed. They hope to have rubles to burn, and for each burned ruble there will be that much deflation. But there was one flaw in the bright new plan last week. The Government, having switched from cards to stores, raised most prices 50%. This may or may not choke off the expected rush of buyers. If it seems...
...immemorial forest silence of General Grant National Park in California was broken last week by a terrific, thundering crash. The mighty sequoia tree named "Michigan" had broken from its 27-ft. base and sprawled its length of 275 ft. upon the forest floor. An old burn had apparently unbalanced it, while its roots were loosened by a tiny spring. The great tree's fall smashed it to smithereens, some pieces flying 500 yards. Still stood greatest "General Grant," 40 ft. through the butt...
...Society at Indianapolis last week exactly why motors knock. Quality of gasoline is the cause. With good fuel a pencil of flame darts from the spark plug and ignites all the charge progressively. This occurs in 1/250 sec. With knocking gasoline, the instant the spark starts ignition, the first burned fuel creates sufficient heat and pressure to ignite all the remaining fuel in one sharp blast, before the spark flame can do its comparatively slow duty. Antiknock compounds obviate the blast, enable the fuel to burn with proper slowness. An observation: gasoline knocks occur after ignition, not before...
...English branch of the family. The London Cornvelts were completely Anglicized and quite prosperous; they treated her like the country cousin she was, but Joyce preferred them to the Leydeners. That was in 1908, when the question of woman's suffrage in England had already begun to burn. The Cornvelts were for it, but in a nice way; nobody had more contempt than they for the vulgar and outrageous behavior of the militant Suffragettes. Imagine their horror when they heard that Joyce had become one, and had been arrested for making an irruption into the sacred House of Commons...