Word: petrole
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
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...