Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enough on each car to restrict con- siderably their widespread ownership. Moreover, gasoline retails at about 45 cents a gallon, which makes running expenses high. U. S. cars are built without especial consideration for their consumption of gasoline, where British cars are especially constructed to be economical of fuel. Yet U. S. cars have several positive advantages. They are better on hills, they are cheaper and easier to repair, and they are much less expensive to begin with. Lastly, U. S. makers will probably introduce the popular part-payment plan for purchasing...
...Department's index, covering 404 commodities, registered 147.0, compared with 144.6 for the preceding June, and 150.6 for July, 1923. Last month's was the first upward tendency shown since February, 1924. Of its nine principal commodity group indices, four declined, one remained unchanged, and four rose. Fuel and lighting fell from 175 last June to 173 last July, metals from 132 to 130, building materials from 173 to 169, and house furnishings from 172 to 171. Chemicals and drugs remained unchanged at 127. But farm products shot up from 134 to 141, food from...
...looked out westward over a cold grey sea. Naval scouts wirelessed them that the eastern harbors of Greenland were jammed with ice-floes, that their next hop would have to be 825 miles, to Ivigtut on a southerly Greenland cape. That meant they would need to carry extra fuel. Hoisting spare gasoline tankards aboard, the pilots started their engines, sought to take off. But the tankards were too heavy. The planes could not rise. Exasperated, the pilots tossed away every nonessential ounce, repaired minor breakage occasioned by their false starts, shot off hazardously. After 10 hours and 19 minutes...
...plowed home second; Nick Nack, owned by Humphrey Birge of Buffalo, third. Nick Nack finished second to Baby Gar III in 1922, at Hamilton, Ontario, and was awarded a protest that Wood's boat had an airplane engine. This year Wood's secret of success was carrying fuel enough for non-stop heats...
...Professor Frederick G. Donnan, of London, suggested that as a future source of fuel we may use waterpower to obtain chlorine from salt, the gas to be used as a fuel. Jerome Alexander countered with a proposition to use waterpower to break up water into hydrogen and oxygen for use as fuel. By these means it is proposed to make great savings in transmitting power...