Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rejected measures included: the $3,500,000 bill for roadbuilding in public domains (Indian reservations, national parks, etc.); a 10% pay-raise, totaling some $6,000,000 per annum, for night-working city and railroad postal employes; a bill of extra allowances to fourth-class postmasters for rent, fuel, light, equipment; a bill to promote Captain George R. Armstrong, U. S. A. (retired) to lieutenant-colonel...
Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt had ample excuse to indulge, last week, in an honest, becoming sailor's blush. He will shortly have assigned to him as his flagship the new British post-Washington Treaty cruiser Suffolk. Strictly speaking the Suffolk, when empty of stores, water, fuel and ammunition, just comes within the Treaty limitation of 10,000 tons. But in the building of the Suffolk thousands of parts have been made of aluminum, where use of a heavier metal would have been standard practice. Judged from the standpoint of fighting strength, the 10,000-ton Suffolk probably...
There was land, an island. And on it, or between it and another island, was a stretch of level ice, perhaps over a lake. With practically no fuel left, they were obliged to try a landing...
...Chemistry, will describe the manufacture of gasoline from petroleum with a consideration of the fundamental scientific principles involved. In connection with the economics of gasoline, Professor Conant will discuss the future supply of petroleum, conservation of petroleum resources by development of high compression gasoline, and the possibilities of motor fuel from alcohol, shale, and coal...
Colorado operators maintained that the strikers' morale had been undermined by loss of pay and the introduction of many new workers unsympathetic towards the I. W. W. But the largest operator, President J. F. Welborn of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co., frankly admitted the injury done his own interests when he estimated that the four-month disturbance had cost Labor $3,000,000, railroads $4,000,000, affiliated industries $1,000,000 and Colorado's operators $10,000,000, not to mention markets which it would take years to recapture...