Word: gallons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gallon the U.S. oil industry can now produce quantities of aviation gasoline so powerful that present airplane engines in production cannot make full use of it. Fuel technology has outstripped mechanical progress, inverting the aviation picture of 16 years...
...until 1931 was the first 100 octane gasoline made-and then only in laboratory flaskfuls at a cost of $10 a gallon...
Today 100 octane gasoline costs only 15? a gallon f.o.b. refinery. It powers all first-line U.S. and British warplanes, gives them 20% more power per gallon than Germany's usual 90 octane. But even this supergas-70% more powerful than 1931's best 87 octane fuel-is a back number with fuel technologists, who have recently concocted "no octane" gasoline-50% more powerful than 100 octane. Of this liquid dynamite the U.S. could produce overnight several hundred thousand gallons...
Into the Octane Stratosphere. This month U.S. oil companies, greased by a promise of some $150,000,000 from the RFC, are moving fast to triple their 1,818,000-gallon-a-day capacity for 100 octane gas. As late as last May 0PM's Petroleum Consultant, Dr. Robert Erastus Wilson, thought the oil industry "with its genius for overbuilding" could produce "twice the present domestic and foreign demand," though at a meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers he advised "a 25% expansion in 100 octane capacity" to be on the safe side. But that was before Britain...
...could save 500,000 oaken barrels, 700,000,000 bottles, 20,000,000 paperboard cases annually. 2) With the "thin slop" now thrown away, the industry could feed vitamin B2 to millions of cattle. 3) If needed, the industry could switch 75,000,000 of its 435,000,000-gallon capacity to industrial alcohol...