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...Packettes" have a preheat system for quick and easy starting on the coldest arctic runways. Fresh air is warmed to 400° by a gasoline-burning, automobile-type heater. Then a hand-started blower drives the heated air over the engine proper, forces it through the crankcase and around the walls of the cylinders. In no more than ten minutes the engine is warm enough to start...
...crossing the burning Mojave desert in a car fitted with 50 Ibs. of ice and an air-conditioning unit, plus a block of dry ice on the floorboard, Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Larnce pulled into a service station to find out what made the car so warm, learned that their heater...
...brother Charles. Fresh out of Stanford University's engineering school, and with $10,000 in capital borrowed from their father, the brothers designed an industrial fuel control unit, did badly. They did better with a thermostat control for home furnaces, but not till they invented a simplified home-heater control did sales start soaring. By 1940, sales were up to $612,848. Since then more than $2,000,000 in stock has been, issued, to finance expansion of their plant in Glendale, and three younger brothers (General Manager Al, Sales Boss Jack, Plant Superintendent Richard) have come to help...
...trains. Philip Noel-Baker, Minister of Fuel & Power, pleaded in a radio address: "Put the kettle on before, not after, you light the gas. Don't boil more water than you need. Keep the lid on the saucepan while you're cooking. Try to use your electric heater for half an hour less every...
Workmen began digging up the sidewalk in front of the Varsity Liquor Store yesterday, to make way for the foundation of a police kiosk for the Square. The new concrete box will rise 18 feet from the street and be equipped with loudspeakers, a heater, and windshield wipers...