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Word: menthenol (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...castings painted according to its owner's whim. Its tiny, two-cycle motor, wide open, can turn over up to 25,000 revolutions a minute. For fuel, some owners have their own secret formula. But the most commonly used "soups" are over-the-counter concoctions of castor oil, menthenol, alcohol, ether, nitrobenzol and other rapid-burning combustibles. Price per gallon: 75? up. The average miniature car runs a mile on two ounces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Spindizzies | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

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