Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nikola Tesla, genius extraordinary of electricity, predicted last week as he has been predicting since 1895 or so that enormous stores of power will some day be broadcast by radio; when that is possible, that airplanes will need no fuel. They will fly indefinite lengths of time on current flashed to them from any distance...
...sell Russian oil for which British companies, notably Royal Dutch-Shell, had long been striving. The Standard Oil rights included: 1) two years' monopoly of selling Russian oil in Egypt; 2) 500,000 tons of raw naphtha for sale in Mediterranean countries; 3) 500,000 tons of fuel oil for Standard Oil ship filling stations at Constantinople, Port Said and Colombo; 4) six years' rights to get oil for its tanker fleet from Russian Naphtha Syndicate tank stations at Marseilles, Genoa, Constantinople and Baku...
...third National Reliability Tour into Ford Airport, Detroit. First to cross the line was a Pitcairn Mailwing. Four seconds later came Pilot Eddie Stinson of Detroit, with seven passengers in a cabined monoplane of his own design. Of the merit points awarded for keeping to schedule, not having accidents, fuel economy, etc.-he had 2,000 more than any other contestant. The ships had traveled 4,200 miles, from Detroit to New England, down the coast to Baltimore, cross country via Pittsburgh and Cleveland into Michigan again, back south to Dayton, Louisville, Dallas, Tulsa and thence up the continent...
...canceled their alarms when safety neared. Old seamen nodded knowingly. "That's what the fog does to you," they said. The explanation of their silence given by the flyers was this: When the S. O. S. signals were sent, the plane was dropping due to poor fuel feed, which boded a shortage. Near the sea's surface, the clog in pump or fuel line cleared up under the increased atmospheric pressure of the lower altitude. But so close to the sea had they dropped that the radio aerial trailed in the waves, was torn...
...explained: "Under the Trent method the coal is finely ground, wet with water and then violently agitated while fuel oil is run in. The coal particles gather into globules the size of French peas, while the ash is suspended in the water and run off. The coal becomes a putty-like amalgam which is then shaped and baked in the form of small briquettes. The fuel oil is mostly recovered...