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Show -COMMENTS- GASOLINE "VITAMINS" When spectacular figures on the performance of a new type military plane arc released, there is a general tendency t'o overlook one important factor; fuel and its bearing on the breathtaking record of modern aircraft. For example, a standard airliner transport plane can carry 24 passengers with 100 octane fuel operating or. engines en-gines designed for it, while the same plane flying with 73 -octane fuel and comparablee engines can carry only 10 passengers. pas-sengers. Our 2,000-horscpowcr engines would still be draftmcn's ', dream without the high test gas to run them. And it takes a lot more than oil fields and wells to 'produce that gas. Mil- ' lions of dollars in research and decades of painstaking ex-; periment in the labatory are required before the fuel was. produced that could send the present, efficient, high altitude, heavily armored bombers over our enemies. The oil industry was experimenting with gasoline "vitamins" "vi-tamins" before anybody ever heard of Hitler or Hirohito, or before there was any conceivable need for a super-gasoline. SHORTAGES? PRIORITIES? RATIONING? CEILINGS? Sure we have all these and many other annoyance and inconvience in our daily -life as Christmas rolls around! And still, The Bulletin greets its readers, WITH BEST WISHES AND A MERRY CHRISTMAS." |