Word: petrol
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...British Press Sir John Cadman has still another name: the Petrol Diplomat. He cinched his title once again last week by ending amicably Britain's five-month squabble with the Persian Government over Anglo-Persian's oil leases (TIME...
...John first won the title of Petrol Diplomat as government oil adviser in the famed San Remo conference which divided between Britain and France the output from the rich Mesopotamian oil fields, earned the anger of U. S. oilmen by shutting U. S. companies...
Woman's Shaving Tackle. Not forgetting its pedestrian readers the Guardian reported: "The most striking exhibit, from the hiker's point of view, is an 'ultra-lightweight week-end kit,' comprising rucksack, sleeping-bag, tent, a four-peg coat-hanger, a petrol-stove, frypan, water-bucket, a plate, cup, receptacles for food and drink, knife, spoon and fork, and electric torch, a pair of shoes, a tent pole, swimming suit, complete change of clothes, towels, soap, facecloth, shaving tackle, and toothbrush, the whole weighing slightly over ten and a half pounds...
...year tax (based on horsepower), far less than the ?16-to-?24 tax on Model A Fords. Price for the sedan (cheapest model) is ?120. Austin's sedan costs ?118, Morris' ?122. Fords, like Austins and Morrises, will run 35 miles on a gallon of petrol. In seeking to break into tax-ridden Britain's popular low-powered automobile field, American Ford planned to give Britain her share of the profits. Though last week's display models were made in the U. S., cars for sale will be built at the Ford plant at Dagenham, along...
...Tomorrow at three o'clock in a meadow on the Cote d'Azur I have an appointment with Pegasus. Pegasus is the name of my airplane. It has a russet body and white wings. . . . Sometimes drunk with petrol it leaps through the air like its brother of old, but in the night it can glide at will like a phantom...