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...discover the exact influence of these materials on gasoline and to find a means of giving numerical values to specially treated fuels was the task of the committee. According to the announcement, the committee proceeded by selecting two chemicals, one knock-preventing (iso-octane), one knock-producing (normal heptane). Numerical rating was arrived at by noting the number of parts of non- knocking isooctane which must be added 1 to ten parts of heptane to duplicate exactly the fuel being rated. Thus, a fuel with a rating of 5 would be inordinately bad; fuel with a rating of 50, superlatively...
...ships he is expected to adopt the latter course. All the rest must be scrapped. He has the privilege of salvaging any machinery he can, for use in his own factories. Following the purchase Mr. Mayo offered $40,000 apiece for seven ocean-going tugs, ISO feet long, with which to tow his purchases to his wrecking yards (probably most of the ships will be scrapped at Detroit). The Shipping Board asked $42,500 apiece for the tugs, and Mr. Mayo agreed-a strange commentary on the value of the ships, that the tugs to tow them should be worth...
...defeated, however) in Alabama and Michigan, lukewarm efforts for an anti-evolution law in Florida, similar laws pending in West Virginia and Georgia, narrowly defeated in Kentucky and North Carolina, passed but repealed in Oklahoma. Tennessee's case, for all its levity of origin, was clean-cut. It iso- lated the issue of all the others. So "Rappelyea's razzberry" grew to mammoth size. Last week, Dayton was intoxicated with "boom" elixir like a small town expecting titular pugilism. College presidents wired for reserved seats in the courthouse auditorium. Eminent lawyers were coming for the defense-suave Dudley...
...hundred and fifty dates per year with ISO girls is the aim of a men's club recently formed at. the University of Michigan. A man is eligible for membership only after he has been seen in company with a good-looking woman. When initiated into the order, he must disclose her name, address and telephone number to his new brothers. As soon as the name and address are given, any member of the club is privileged to call up and date the woman named...
...sometimes spoken of as the "most troublesome man in the House." He had the record, in the last Congress, for making points of no quorum (forcing roll calls, which in the House, with 435 members, take nearly ha f an hour each). In all, the House had 309 calls-ISO hours of legislative time...