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Sixteen companies are now producing 100-octane gasoline; Standard Oil of New Jersey alone is making over 60 times as much as it did two years ago. Said President Gallagher: "Iso-octane-the ingredient which makes this fuel so powerful-cost $30 a gallon when first used in the laboratories. By 1933 the price had dropped to $16. A year later 1,000 gallons were sold to the U.S. Army for $2 a gallon. Today it is between...
...General Robert E. Wood, so-called iso-lationist-appeaser, of the America First Committee, hailed White's statement as sound stuff. So did Charles A. Lindbergh, who to many Americans symbolizes the narrowest isolation, the broadest appeasement. Immediately protests went up; several members resigned, complaining that the isolationist committee was getting too interventionist...
...Greatest Race." Finns regularly win Olympic races at 3,000 metres or more. Last week three solemn Finns named Vol-mari Iso-Hollo, Gunnar Hoeckert and IImari Salminen won their specialties, the 3,000-metre steeplechase, the 5,000 and the 10,000-metre runs. With U. S. victories in the sprints and intermediate runs, outside competition centred, as usual, on the 1,500-metre race. Among 39 entrants, eight were outstanding. New Zealand had Jack Lovelock, onetime world-record miler. England had Stanley Wooderson, who had beaten Lovelock three consecutive times this year. Italy had Luigi Beccali, winner...
...pharmacologists to produce a potable bismuth like the drink Professor Hanzlik announced. In his potion, which 200 San Franciscans have found harmless, which 40 San Francisco syphilitics have found beneficial, the solution is sodium bismuthate; the solvent, a mixture of propylene glycol and a new substance called tri-iso-propanolamine...
Steeplechase. The course in the 3,000-metre steeplechase was 3,450 metres. Officials had made a mistake in designing it. After the race judges consulted the runners who, instead of protesting for a re run, agreed to stand by the result: Volmari Iso-Hollo (Finland) first, by 70 yards, Tom Evenson (England) second, Joe McCluskey (U. S.) third...