Word: synthol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Synthol. Professor Franz Fischer of Mulheim-Ruhr takes this same wood alcohol and builds up a petroleum-like fuel...
...Synthol." The Du Font interests would manufacture, the Standard Oil Co. of N. J. distribute, a new synthetic motor fuel to be called "synthol," made from coal, petroleum or lignite. To burn synthol, a new automobile motor had been devised, the most powerful of its size, very light, needing no gear shift, emitting no poisonous fumes, having no carbon troubles, getting 50 miles per fuel gallon, more like a steam engine than an internal combustion engine. The General Motors Corporation would manufacture this motor, install it in all its cars (Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Oakland, Oldsmobile). So said...
Denial. Dr. Boyd's "synthol" report was given the lie direct. Upon reading Dr. Boyd's statements in the newspapers, Alfred P. Sloan Jr., President of the General Motors Corporation, said: "Ridiculous on their face, for General Motors has recently announced a new series of cars, which should be sufficient answer." Said Walter C. Teagle, oil President: "Insofar as it refers to the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, there is no basis in fact for the despatch...
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