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...Halifax went the Cunarder Scythia last week for Liverpool and the Continent. In its hold was a heavy Excelsior limousine whose radiator cap bore the letter A circled by a crown. It was bound for Brussels to take its place in a museum beside other personal relics of the late great Albert of the Belgians...
When the Cunard Line's oil-burning liner Scythia slid into New York Harbor last week, coal companies perked up, oil companies were cast down and a dead inventor was remembered. Instead of oil, a black turbid liquid had been pouring through one set of her fuel pipes, burning with sudden fierceness when it reached the combustion area under the boiler. First commercial company ever to use colloidal fuel, the Cunard Line last week called its experiment a complete success. Ignored for eleven years, colloidal fuel was news at last...
...heated. To permit the fuel to remain stable when the temperature is raised a saponifier, such as grease, or a peptizer, such as a coal tar product, is added. This mess of coal, oil and stabilizer was the turbid black liquid pouring last week through the Scythia's fuel pipes...
...units of the Harvardians, well-known undergraduate jazz orchestra, have been engaged to play for the student third class on the transatlantic liners Scythia and Lafayette during the coming summer, it was announced yesterday by Roy Lamson '29, leader and manager of the organization...
...first of these, the Crimson Serenaders, consisting of five students at the University under the direction of J. E. Larkin '32, will embark on the S. S. Scythia on July 9, returning September 10. During the intervening time the orchestra will go on a tour through the center of France, during which it will give a number of programs...