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...election was only for municipal aldermen. But as a straw vote of the national issue of Monarchy v. Republic it was terrific, carried more than a possibility that the straw would flame up in revolution. Said Prime Minister Admiral Aznar, "Disastrous?that was what I told His Majesty. When a Monarchistic country turns Republican within twenty-four hours, the crisis is enough for anyone...
...motor's combustion chamber and by registering the 1 pressure changes, Lloyd Withrow and T. A. Boyd of General Motors were able to tell the American Chemical 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...
...green-winged triad. Next came the red wings, but the third plane of that group faltered under its 10,000-lb. load, nosed down into the sea, killed its mechanic. The last triad, white-winged, was in the air ten minutes when its second plane crashed, burst into flame, sank with its entire crew of four. General Balbo learned their fate by radio, but he led on. Nothing was to be gained by turning back, after 14 months intensive rehearsal for this very moment. Moreover, before leaving Orbetello, near Rome, the handsome young air minister had told his chief, Benito...
...smokestacks. An efficient Chamber of Commerce boasts to visitors that Gary has 515 acres of golf links, parks and playgrounds, a $1,000,000 community Church, a model public school plan. The visitor will listen politely. But he will always remember Gary as a grey city of steel and flame and smoke. At No. 1112 Broadway, Gary, a few blocks from the business district, is Central Trust & Savings Bank. Its location is in that part of Gary known as "across the tracks," the great flat area where thousands of steelworkers dwell. The bank was established 21 years ago, and there...
...left wing, exploded the gasoline in the wing tank before the five men aboard knew what had happened. The four crewmen, led by Pilot Horst Merz, well aware that thousands of gallons of gasoline lay in the deep bottom tanks, seized fire extinguishers and attacked the great tower of flame that shot from the wing. They quenched it without the aid of volunteers who came scurrying across the bay in small boats from the Portuguese naval air station...