Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suits, and connected by long horizontal passages. At five miles, a heat between 400° and 450° would be obtained. Capable of producing 4,500 horsepower, this type of heat mine would function for 1,-000 years, would cost about 30 millions but never need an ounce of fuel...
...hours later the ship was seen from Ireland heading out to sea. Many hours later the Standard Oil steamer Josiah Macy saw an airplane midway between America and England flying westward. Many, many hours later, after the St. Raphael's fuel was long exhausted, came reports of fierce head winds. She must have met heavy fog. But no reports of two men in a monoplane who had set out across the sea or of the Princess behind them down the tiny corridor from the cockpit, sitting surrounded by red hat boxes and a little basket in a wicker chair...
Most superstitious persons avoid the number 13, long noted as a bad luck bringer. Some, to show lack of superstition, make 13 their favorite number. To this second class, President Thomas Moses of the United States Fuel Company, might well become a member...
...last week's appointment to head the fuel company (which, as a subsidiary of the U. S. Steel Corporation, employs 40,000 men) came after 13 years as its General Manager. His predecessor died on June 13 and the letter asking him to attend the meeting at which his appointment was made was dated July 13. He was chosen president in room No. 1313 on the 13th floor of the Carnegie Building, Pittsburgh. He was married on February 13 and is now head of 13 allied companies...
...ceased making petroleum by subjecting large deposits of organic matter to centuries of subterranean pressure. But Dr. Hans Tropsch of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (Mülheim-an-der-Ruhr, Germany) gave hope that nature is still building oil stores, by another process. Germans have perfected processes of manufacturing synthetic fuel oils by heating carbon (bituminous coal, lignite) in a stream of steam or natural gas, in the presence of certain catalytics including iron. Germany's fuel-oil supply now seems assured as long as her coal lasts. Dr. Tropsch pointed out that natural gases collected from the crater of Mont...