Word: liquidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Without a U. S. order for either planes or motors in prospect, Ford went right ahead to tackle the job. In Michigan he had 300 men at work. One group of them was designing motors-not only a new liquid-cooled airplane engine of Ford design, but also improvements on the Rolls-Royce. (In Britain the Ford factory has been busy manufacturing Rolls-Royce Merlin engines for British Spitfires and Hurricanes.) More than that, his men were busy consulting with airplane experts, notably Colonel Lindbergh, on building planes as well as engines. The Administration might count him out, but Henry...
...turn out 1,000 airplanes a day if the Government would let him do it his way. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau grasped at the magnanimous offer, called Son Edsel to Washington to discuss what Ford might make. Upshot: Edsel tentatively agreed to make 6,000 Rolls-Royce liquid-cooled engines for Great Britain...
...last week Gang Busters faced a foe that got them down. Convinced that Gang Busters might be catching crooks but were not selling Cue, the liquid dentifrice, Benton & Bowles, acting for Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, decided not to renew their contract. Still shooting, still with their boots on, Gang Busters vacated the air waves, waited for Phillips H. Lord, their entrepreneur, to send them out on a new crusade...
...zero. The scheme: liquefaction. Against next winter's peak demand. East Ohio will next fall compress natural gas under 600 pounds of pressure, liquefy it by cooling at 250° F. below zero, pour it into insulated sphericals. In the three tanks, Utilitarian Gallagher will have the liquid equivalent of 150,000,000 cubic feet, compressed to 1/600 its gaseous volume. Heated by steam, the liquid will again vaporize and go out through East Ohio's mains next winter...
...Streamlined, liquid-cooled engines...