Word: motors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This perhaps is the only method by which to study a phenomenon which is occurring today. . . . Although Italy produces excellent automobiles, admired by and exported to the whole world, Italians purchase American motor cars in considerable numbers...
...flight was the first accomplished this season, and the first North Atlantic crossing ever made by a French plane, a Bernard monoplane named Yellow Bird, with a null motor. A 160-lb. stowaway, one Arthur Schreiber, 22. traveled in it, to the hazard of the crew and the handicapping of the flight...
...start at Old Orchard was June 13, a fair day with western winds all the way across the Atlantic. On the long, white, hard beach were the Yellow Bird and the Green Flash, a Bellanca monoplane with Wright Whirlwind motor which Roger Q. Williams and Lewis E. Yancey planned to fly to Rome. The Yellow Bird was going to Paris. The two planes warmed up simultaneously. The Yellow Bird took off first, her tail drooping unusually. The Green Flash in starting crumpled a wheel and wrecked itself...
...Reykjavik, Iceland's mountain-hugged harbor, the westbound Swedish "commercial" flyers (TIME, June 17) last week decided to wait until the end of this month before continuing their Stockholm-New York flight. Bad weather over Greenland and need for motor parts are delaying them...
Separating crude oil into its several constituents is the function of the oil refinery. The crude oil is put into a still and heated. The molecularly lighter substances are given off, beginning with petroleum ether. Then comes natural gasoline, then the naphthas (from which come motor gasolines), then kerosene, then fuel oil, then gas oil, finally lubricating oil. Coke or asphalt are left as a residue.* Efficiency of the process, of course, depends upon the physical fact that the substances mixed in the crude oil come out separately in the distillation. Before the arrival of the automobile, the distillation process...