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Intercooler. Not only oil but air has to be cooled for airplane engines. To supply enough oxygen for an engine at high altitudes, compressed air has to be blown into its carburetor. Though air may be as cold as -40° F. when sucked into a supercharger (TIME, Aug. 18), it often heats up to 450° F. upon compression, and must be cooled to between 30° and 100° F. before it is fed to the carburetors. The coolers used are simply air scoops which pour wind around small pipes carrying the hot, supercharged air. Intercoolers on early...
...when he was questioned about the probable response here to the movie's sathe of the University. A pre-war graduate who has already celebrated his twenty-fifth reunion, the former Lampoon editor admitted that he doesn't "understand the modern Harvard man, the 1941 model. The engine and carburetor are the same," he claimed...
...random one-day auditor's survey showed a $1,300 labor charge for work on 300 light vehicles. Examples: repairing one tire, 4½ hours; pouring five quarts of oil into a truck, one hour; repairing one carburetor, 12 hours...
...Vladimirovich Kuibyshev, who was head of the State Planning Commission and prime mover of the First Five-Year Plan when he died in 1935. The city had been refurbished, as the junction of important railroads joining Moscow, the Donets Basin and Siberia, as the location of an armature and carburetor factory famous throughout the U.S.S.R., as a cultural center with seven colleges, 18 technical schools, six scientific research institutes, six repertory theaters...
...curfew at the filling station is not curfew at the carburetor. Before 7 p.m. most drivers now said: "Fill her up," instead of the more usual: "Five gallons." When the petroleum shortage really overtakes the public, the name for it will be rationing...