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...requested by the League (TIME, Sept. 30). With patriotism boiling, General Giuseppe Garibaldi, grandson of Italy's "Liberator" and for years a prominent antiFascist, abruptly said in Manhattan last week that he had switched to Mussolini, was now for the war. With gasoline up from 85? per gal. to $1.10 last week, Italy's mincing-mannered Crown Prince Umberto combined patriotism with the renowned thrift of his Royal Family by announcing that he and the Crown Princess will hereafter use not more than two of their motor cars. An English governess who has cared for any number...
...hexane or benzene. The oil and the solvent are filtered off. The solvent is recovered from the oil by distillation; from the mash by steaming under pressure. Last week's jury of scientists looked along this line of operations for vulnerable spots. They found that two 4,000-gal. tanks of hexane had not exploded. Neither had the two 50,000-gal. oil storage tanks, nor the stills, nor the pressure apparatus. The blast, in fact, seemed to have originated in the flaking room, might have been due to a dust explosion...
...needs. Before Dec. 31, 1937 all Italian motor vehicles must be converted to burn substitute fuels, such as coal gas distilled en route from charcoal by the Fiat system. Two days after the Cabinet meeting Italian motorists found that the price of gasoline had doubled to 87? per gal. Only cheerful sound from the Cabinet board was an announcement that "particularly abundant wheat and rice" crops ensure Italians plenty to eat this winter. Fearing possible blockades, Italian Gorgonzola shippers wired British customers last week to order all their supplies for the next few months in advance...
...activators). By this method lightweight derivatives formerly wasted or diverted to by-products are made into high-grade fuel. Trade papers pointed out that if all gaseous hydrocarbons produced in cracking were utilized by the Phillips patented process, the extra gasoline output would be about 1,000,000,000 gal. per year...
Arrowplane's speed exceeds requirements by 4 m. p. h. It lands at 40 m. p. h., stops in 30 ft., gets 13½ mi. per gal. of fuel, can supposedly be flown with safety by a novice after two hours' instruction. Secretly tested for six months on a dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert, the strange-looking craft was last week publicly demonstrated for the first time in Los Angeles, where its unconventional behavior alarmed experienced observers until they became used to it. "It leaped into the air," wrote one correspondent, "like a chicken going over...