Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bulletproofed? The first tubeless, puncture-sealing automobile tire was put on the market. The tire, made by B. F. Goodrich Co., fits tightly enough to the rim to hold air. A gummy layer under the tread, similar to the material in bulletproof aircraft fuel tanks, instantly seals up punctures. Price: $21.95 for a standard-size (6.00 by 16) tire, slightly more than an ordinary tire & tube...
Said Jersey Standard's President Eugene Holman: "We've got the fuel oil shortage in the East largely licked." Holman and the industry took hope from the fact that more tankers are being put on the Texas-East Coast run. But to New York, which had to borrow oil from the U.S. Navy, and to shivering householders, the shortage seemed far from licked. And even optimistic Mr. Holman conceded that the overall U.S. oil shortage would last for at least another two or three years...
Dependent on the U.S. for its motor fuel supply, Cuba was going to be on short rations at least until spring eased the U.S. shortage and released tankers for the Cuban run. As a stopgap move, the government last week ordered sugar-mill owners to put aside 40 million gallons of blackstrap molasses for the making of alcohol. Combined with gasoline, the alcohol would soon go into motorists' tanks as carburante national, a low-grade, high-knock fuel...
...Chile, trying to save gasoline (and dollar exchange), put police patrols on the roads to hold motorists down to 40 m.p.h. The government also asked motorists to cut out-of-town jaunts to one a fortnight. Chile's fuel future looked bright. With great fanfare, scientists at the University of Concepcion cracked 150 liters of petroleum from the new Tierra del Fuego fields, pronounced the product excellent...
...Department of the Interior's J. A. ("Cap") Krug made the deal with the oil industry. In addition to reducing East Coast gasoline refining in favor of the more critically needed' fuel oils, the deal permits oil companies to pool and swap supplies, thus even up the flow of oil. (Because of the hue & cry over oil exports -actually a mere dribble-the Government also ordered an 18½% cut in them...