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Just before the halfway mark, 28-year-old Paul Goldsmith, a gas-station owner from Royal Oak, Mich., riding in second place, pulled up at the pits to refuel. In just 22 seconds he took on four gallons of gas, two quarts of oil, a cup of black coffee, and sped on again. On his medium-sized (350 lbs.) new American model a Harley-Davidson KRTT, which had such standard equipment as four-gear transmission and some unique features of its own (a foot shift, a hand clutch), Goldsmith finally lapped most of the field...
...Carrier striking power is short-lived: a task group can maintain full-scale operations for only 2½ days before it must withdraw and refuel...
...practical plane. They could be based in the protected water of forward areas before airfields are built. In some cases they might do away entirely with the necessity of building an expensive runway on land. They could also be used to protect long-range bombers, landing at sea to refuel from submarines or high-speed surface craft...
...hesitate. He turned east over Boston Harbor and headed straight for home and eggs. Ahead, by the shortest route, lay nearly 3,300 miles of the North Atlantic. Puffinus, if he followed the custom of his species, rested occasionally on the water or stopped in a likely spot to refuel with plankton, small water creatures found just below the ocean's surface. But Puffinus wasted no time. He finished the homing trip in 12 3/4 days, averaging about 250 miles...
...miles more to Ipchong, and there the column ran almost smack into two troop-laden Red trucks. The enemy fled, and Baker used the gas from their vehicles to refuel his own. At Chonan, another eight miles, enemy soldiers began to appear on both sides of the road. Baker's column kept rolling, fired ahead and to its flanks as it rolled. One of Baker's gunners kept score on its hits in a little notebook: "9:05 p.m.-two more; two more; seven more; 9:35 p.m.-30 Reds, two carts; two more; two mule carts full...