Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Amid all the furor about the letter, more substantial fuel was added last week to the Liberal-Conservative controversy about U.S.-Canadian defense policy. This time, it was reports that the U.S. might base eight squadrons of jet interceptors in Canada.-Pearson's Defense Minister said he has had "in formal intimations" of such a proposal, but both Pearson and the Pentagon denied that any official request had been made. In any event, the new storm brought fresh Conservative charges of a Pearson "surrender...
...brokers phone regularly, their names are printed in big block letters on the sides of their cars-and they owe it all to a 500-lb. hunk of aluminum, nickel and cast iron that is just as tough as they are: the Meyer-Drake Offenhauser engine. Force-fed by fuel injection, the Offy gulps methanol (wood alcohol) at the rate of one gallon every four miles. It has only two gears-low and high-and four cylinders, but it turns out 100 h.p. for each cylinder, and it can propel a racing car at 180 m.p.h. In 29 years...
Auto engineers who dream of finding a replacement for the complicated, churning piston engine have long looked wistfully at the gas-turbine engine that introduced the jet age. The turbine-with its screeching siren noise, high fuel consumption, slow acceleration and searing exhaust gases-now dominates the jet field, but is still far out when it comes to autos. After 14 years of experimenting and several premature publicity outbursts on the subject, Chrysler Corp. is now confident that it has tamed the gas turbine...
Kerosene & Peanut Oil. Auto men were first attracted to the gas turbine by its simple construction (one-fifth the number of parts in a piston engine) and the fact that it could deliver high power while using almost any fuel that will burn in a test tube-from kerosene to peanut oil. Its basic works are uncomplicated. It sucks air through an intake and compresses it in a chamber into which fuel is sprayed and ignited by a spark plug (see diagram). The expanding gases drive one turbine wheel that spins the air compressor and then rush on to whirl...
...cartons. Aside from its supertrees, Weyerhaeuser's most intensive research is aimed at finding more uses for bark, which represents 15% of each tree. It has developed a hydraulic debarker that bombards mill logs with water and leaves them peeled like bananas. Recovered bark chips, once burned for fuel, are now processed as medicine, vanillin, insulation, soil conditioners, reinforcement for polyester plastics, and mud thinner for oil-well drilling. Says Vice President for Wood Products George H. Weyerhaeuser, "You'd almost think that lumber is the byproduct now." Lumber is almost that. Ten years ago lumber and pulp...