Word: burnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This spray is said to burn more smoothly and cheaply than a carburetor mixture, to make possible the use of less volatile gasolines, to prevent icing under any conditions. One of the first German planes shot down last fall in Scotland was found to have a fuel-injection device. In the U. S., Continental Motors Corp. now equips 75-h.p. engines for light planes with the first commercial U. S. fuel-injection system. Army & Navy technologists are experimenting with...
...letter of Miss Jackson, to which Professor Rand refers, asks: "How is it possible for any citizen of the United States to look clearly and objectively at this country today and not burn with shame at the revolting sight of its neutrality? Neutrality means impartiality and indifference. A United States which has proclaimed to the world in the face of the stupendous conflict between justice and injustice, law and anarchy, reason and brutality, now raging in Europe-- that it prefers to stand neutral, is a United States in which the very spirit of its foundations and its development has rotted...
Norwegians Burn Towns...
...divided explosives into three, categories; propellants which burn and do not explode; primary explosives, which explode and do not burn and are used for detonators in shells; and high explosives, which shoot off in intimate contact with an exploding primary...
...made a show of sending planes to Finland over Germany's protest and territory. When the Allies seemed on a spot, he called off the British trade talks, got into a jam with Britain over coal, in the end managed to have most of his coal and burn Ribbentrop too. Last week he had everyone utterly bewildered. There was talk of sending an Ambassador back to Moscow, even though Premier Molotov was making such aspersive remarks about Italy's Albanian grab that the Italian press would not print them. Il Duce moved to renew the British trade talks...