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...steel mills now make cement out of their "slag," which was formerly thrown away as waste. Gases arising from coal-burning, instead of being allowed to escape, are now distilled in by-product coke ovens, and yield petrol, benzol and other derivative products employed in explosives, dyes...
...message was not the first indication that the ship was in trouble. Commander John Rogers on the seaplane had reported to Naval listeners that headwinds had forced him to open his throttles in order to keep his headway?that his petrol tanks were consequently emptying too fast. This message of distress was regarded as distinctly alarming. It meant that the Frenchmen would retain for a while longer the non-stop flight record. Why, it might actually means that the Rogers and his men were in danger...
Governor J. Daugaard Jensen of Greenland: "I believe he used so much petrol that he was unable to return to his starting place and therefore flew as far as possible toward Cape Columbia [Ellesmere Land, about 250 miles nearer the Pole than Spitzbergen...
Said Stefan Raditch "storing petrol of the Balkans" (TIME, Sept. 3), leader of the Croatian Secessionists, at Vienna...
...aerodrome. I've lost sight of Tom, also. Engine off, nose down, spiral, look all over the sky for Tom. I see him going down. I'll let him go, because it's too wonderful up here, I guess Tom has had engine-trouble or run out of petrol. He sees me and is waving with both hands. Down I go after him, over 100 miles an hour I'm now at 3000 again. Tom has landed...