Show TO FO FLYING FIXING tho the typical automobile owner 16 barrels of gasoline a year to such a customer cua tomor tile tho orders placed by undo uncle sam aro are almost unbelievable our government la Is not on only ly trying to got ampro amplo quantities tit legor or everything its own forces require but it Is buying tro amondous tor for tho ailt lah ish ChI chiaiese filipinos and others this athla purchasing has created a tough problem for united states industries chica find themselves thoms olvea called upon tor for many times their normal production of atlon ton tor for things they never manufactured before A striking illustration for this thia haa bas boon been made maclo known by jesse jones of the tile modern fighting airplane works best on a gasoline of octane rating which ideana a gasoline with a zoro zero knock rating hardly it a gallon of this grado of fuel was vas produced before tho the war jt it was 1 eel tb broam tho the regular commercial planes fly on oil 84 to 01 octane gas your automobile wull on motor fuel with nn an octane number an low as 70 so thoro there was no occasion tor for the oil refiner to got into the production of fighting fuel until tile the british began asking tor for it for their bombers bombera and tors toia nevertheless more than a year ago the standard oil company of now new jersey foresaw a demand tor for this special gasoline and began to build abnit a unit for its manufacture before it hid hafed on an order now the government to IB calling for a total of barrels of octane gasoline to be daily ored ovary by the end of the year it la ila estimated that it will cost to build the feces ary plant facilities to turn out this extraordinary quantity already half a dozen companies have agreed to take on part of tile the job and the standard oil 01 company of now jersey has agreed to license them to uso use its pa patents mr jones Is preparing to advance most moat of the money required roi rei although some of the a oil I 1 re ref lnora finers have elected to raise their own capital to cover that port of tile the new construction which they hope they can use atter after the war |