Word: leadedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The new fuel can be used in any car with a low-compression engine not requiring the antiknock properties of leaded gas. But it will be indispensable in all but a few 1975-model cars. The great majority of those cars will be fitted with catalytic converters that change noxious...
The fuel will cost drivers 2? or 3? per gal. more than leaded regular gas, and General Motors executives, in a rare difference of opinion with the oil industry, have questioned whether the price premium is necessary (oil chiefs say that refining costs make it so). The American Automobile Association...
The converter, however, raises some new and very sticky difficulties of its own. Most important is the fact that it cannot be used with leaded gasoline, since even a trace of lead would foul the device beyond repair. As a result, the EPA has ordered the oil industry to make...
Gottwald continues to spend money sparingly and has built a comfortable cash reserve of more than $140 million for Ethyl. But the company's net earnings declined 6% last year to $35 million on sales of $577 million. Since leaded antiknock compounds accounted for 36% of those sales and...
The Gottwalds now talk about buying copper or other metal companies, but they also intend to stick with lead. It is possible that the Wankel rotary engine, currently being tested by General Motors and Ford as a replacement for the internal combustion engine, can be adapted to leaded gasoline and...