Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they still tend to get clogged with ice in a certain temperature-humidity range. This can be prevented by valving in hot air from the exhaust stacks. But if anything goes wrong with the hot-air valve, the engine conks just the same. To get rid of carburetors, fuel-injection systems have been devised to shoot into the cylinders tiny jets of liquid gasoline...
This spray is said to burn more smoothly and cheaply than a carburetor mixture, to make possible the use of less volatile gasolines, to prevent icing under any conditions. One of the first German planes shot down last fall in Scotland was found to have a fuel-injection device. In the U. S., Continental Motors Corp. now equips 75-h.p. engines for light planes with the first commercial U. S. fuel-injection system. Army & Navy technologists are experimenting with...
...long as warfare in the air does not exceed its present intensity, the Germans do not seem destined to suffer from any dangerous shortage of airplane fuel...
With a flashlight stuffed in his coat pocket, he set forth to read meters. His objects: 1) to save expenses, 2) to get closer touch with the customers of Gardner Gas, Fuel & Light...
...over ten years the competition of fuel oil and of the Gardner Electric Light Co. has been slowly running the gas company out of business. But big New England Power Association felt bound to keep the gas company going because it also owned the light company and wanted to keep everybody's good will. To keep it going, N. E. P. A. poured $297,700 into the gas company. Its gross fell from $76,439 for 1930 to $37,215 last year, and its annual net deficit ranged between...