Word: motoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once more the Harvard War Service information Bureau, under Elliot Perkins '24, has received a call for Harvard volunteers. This time the call comes from the First Motor Squadron of the Massachusetts State Guard, asking for men to replace its draft-depleted ranks...
With a letter from Major General Sherman Miles and testimony of such work as the Grove tragedy to point to the Motor Squadron remains as one of the best chauces to see active duty when an emergency should arrive, according to Laurence O. Pratt '26, second Lieuten-ant in the First Motor Squadron of the Massachusetts State Guard...
Pilots circulated rumors: "The Hudson is full of green dragons." Reported Colonel Duckworth: "The idea got around that if one motor went out, you were about gone. The boys were letting the airplane fly them-they were not flying the airplane." Stalls, followed by crashes, resulted when green instructors and students climbed too rapidly after the takeoff...
...Spencer Frederick, ex-carpenter, is now layout man in the welded-parts section at Schenectady. His suggestion for rearrangement of ship-motor parts cut from large steel sheets gets 25% more pieces from each sheet, saves 110,000 lb. of steel. By better arrangement of other parts cut from steel sheets he saves another 537,000 lb. of steel. Total savings: enough to make 80,000 Garand rifles. His award...
Typical is the situation with ersatz motor fuel. Most of the synthetic gasoline made from coal, plus the conquered Rumanian oil, has been invested in the Caucasus campaign for more oil. Meanwhile wartime traffic limps on carbon monoxide made in portable charcoal burners (TIME, Sept. 7). Last week a new ersatz fuel appeared in the news: liquefied methane gas in pressure tanks. This fuel is obtained by "bottling" natural gas in Italy, Hungary and Denmark, and also as a byproduct in the production of gasoline from coal. Recently Berlin Gasworks Co. prepared to extract methane from the city gas supply...