Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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German science, invention and industry are teeming. Among developments lately reported have been things so varied as synthetic petroleum, and precious stones, motor fuel with water as a large ingredient, silk out of lobster shells and other garbage, bullet-proof police clothes. But aviation is the prime field in which Germany proposes to dominate the world tomorrow. Supremacy in the air will, she thinks, give her commercial supremacy. While "DIN," the Deutsche Industrie Normung, works on earth to standardize every manufactured product in Germany? from collar buttons to apartment houses?and begs the industries of other nations to cooperate...
...rescue him. Kindlers of Asia. All over the province of Samarkand and throughout Turkestan similar outbursts were provoked last week by "Woman's Day." This remote region, so long slumberously out of the world, seemed to be kindling again from the sparks struck by Soviet ideals. The human fuel there is crude and lumpy; but so are the logs one needs for a great fire. It is the dream of Soviet Russians that their statesmen may become the successors to the great kindlers of Asia: Alexander, Jenghiz Khan, his grandson Kublai Khan and Tamburlaine...
Major Sarmento Beires of Portugal filled his seaplane full of fuel last fortnight and started "around the world in 90 days...
Tossing leagues of the South Atlantic moved steadily beneath him . . . 500 miles . . . 1000 miles . . . more water and more water . . . an equatorial downpour . . . then an island. Commander Francesco de Pinedo consulted his fuel gauges. Yes, there might be enough left. The maps said only 270 miles from this island, Fernando Noronha, to Port Natal on the easternmost shoulder of South America. There must be enough fuel left, for the glory of Fascismo. Commander de Pinedo circled the island, so that he might know it well, then flew ahead. He had been flying since an African moon flooded Porto Praya...
...floor above the boats were the engines, from little one-cylinder engines to hitch on to a rowboat, to oil engines big enough to drive a yacht. All week spectators gathered around the booth wherein, upon an altar, rested a Cummins Diesel engine. This engine used cheap fuel oil instead of gasoline, starts instantly from stone cold, "takes up no more space than a heavy-duty gasoline engine." Big Diesel engines are used to drive ocean liners...