Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...equipment is certainly gone, and it seems that only the word of the weather burean can keep Captain Giles from the damp quill and the two-a-day. But there will always remain a few skeptics who, keeping in mind that he admitted jettisoning 300 gallons of fuel, will class him with Cosy Dolan as the first to throw a World Series or a transoceanic flight...
...people of New England followed the receding margins of the flood and returned to their riverside towns. Dunes of silt and wreckage filled streets and houses. Food and fuel were scarce. Communication was restored with difficulty. Railroads were broken up for the winter...
...engagement with U. S. Representative William Leighton Carss of Minnesota, at Duluth. The day came and Representative La Guardia was still in New York. Representative La Guardia got into an airplane and in few hours, whizzing westward, was looking down on the sprawling metropolygon that is Chicago. Landing for fuel at Chicago's municipal airport, Representative La Guardia's plane hit a rut, upended, shook up Representative La Guardia and his pilot, broke a propeller and a dinner engagement...
...fire hazard from aviation are to be carried on this year in the mechanical engineering laboratory of the Engineering School. Professor L. S. Marks, who is in charge of the experiments, stated to a CRIMSON reporter that the substitution of a less inflammable, a cheaper, and a more abundant fuel for gasoline would be the object of the investigations...
...fuel to be used is diesel oil, a heavy substitute for gasoline. This oil is already used for almost every type of engine work. Ocean liners of the newest type are being equipped with diesel engines. In Germany, where the supply of gasoline is limited, diesel oil is rapidly taking the place of the lighter fuel. When the gasoline sources in this country are depleted, diesel oil will be the next resource, according to Professor Marks. Another advantage of diesel oil over gasoline is the comparatively small volume it occupies. This is of especial importance in long distance flying...