Word: erastus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Octane Stratosphere. This month U.S. oil companies, greased by a promise of some $150,000,000 from the RFC, are moving fast to triple their 1,818,000-gallon-a-day capacity for 100 octane gas. As late as last May 0PM's Petroleum Consultant, Dr. Robert Erastus Wilson, thought the oil industry "with its genius for overbuilding" could produce "twice the present domestic and foreign demand," though at a meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers he advised "a 25% expansion in 100 octane capacity" to be on the safe side. But that was before Britain began bombing...
...Robert Erastus Wilson, balding, science-wise president of Pan-American Petroleum & Transport Co.. holder of 88 chemical and engineering patents. Meanwhile, in the production side of the commission, hulking William S. Knudsen, on leave from the presidency of General Motors, has also reached into business...