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...Rating is determined by feeding the gasoline to be tested to a test motor, whose spark is advanced until knocking appears. An identical motor is then run on various mixtures of 1) heptane (a bad knocker) and 2) isooctane (once thought to be the perfect knockless fuel) until its knocking corresponds to that of the other. If the unrated gasoline knocks at the same point as a mixture of 30% heptane and 70% isooctane, it is rated as "70 octane...
...Louis, who appeared on the first show. Mutual hopes to induce someone like sports-loving Gillette Safety Razor Co. to sponsor the show. Of his new venture, Red Dolan says: "It may be loused up with a little corn, but I don't think every apple-knocker in the country will be able to tip the plot after one installment...
Defense. Apple-Knocker Byrd's crack about "juggling" the books seemed a good crack to some people, even if his worries about the dim future seemed pretty dim. One worm Byrd pounced on: throughout normal peacetime years, Army & Navy were doled out about $700,000,000 annually. These normal expenditures were this year transferred to emergency defense by Mr. Roosevelt...
...Plump, ebullient Dixie Tighe of the Philadelphia Record, and New York Post plunged even deeper into the Royal private life, cabled her papers that at Quebec's Citadel the King and Queen slept in narrow beds in separate rooms, with a low door between. The door had a knocker on each side. Though the King and Queen had running water in their private bathrooms, members of their entourage had to use old-fashioned wash basins. "The wash bowl sets," added thoroughgoing Miss Tighe, "are absolutely complete...
...Wenatchee, Wash., because it "held thousands of skilled apple workers in the Wenatchee Valley up to ridicule and contempt," the Chamber of Commerce petitioned the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America Inc. for elimination from the screen of the term "apple-knocker...