Word: barreling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they mix the result with ordinary gas to improve the octane rating. If Houdry refining becomes general, it may: 1) reduce the need for the tetraethyl lead which now makes most gasoline satisfactory in modern high-compression engines; 2) conserve U. S. oil reserves by yielding more gasoline per barrel of crude; 3) help stabilize prices by stabilizing stocks, now badly unbalanced because gasoline and fuel oil must be produced simultaneously though one is most used in summer, the other in winter...
...Michigan imprisoned Alexander Ripan for life. The reason: a bullet which killed his farmer neighbor fitted the barrel of Ripan's gun. In 1929, Prisoner Ripan drove a truck out of the Jackson Prison gates, disappeared. In 1935, Michigan found him again, a well-behaved cobbler in East Chicago, Ind. Back to Jackson Prison he was haled...
Last week he walked out, after modern ballistics experts had testified that bullets expand on being fired, that no bullet ever again fits the barrel of the gun that fired it. After twelve years unjustly in jail, Alexander Ripan had his freedom but few of his teeth. He had pulled them out one by one in his cell, so that the pain would "keep him from going crazy...
...parts, tool & die plants. Mr. Martin's two chief rivals-his quarrel with whom almost disrupted the motor workers' union (TIME, Oct. 3)-got special satrapies: Wyndham Mortimer was sent from Detroit to "work with and assist" WPA auxiliaries and aircraft factory locals in the East; and barrel-chested young Richard Frankensteen was given an identical task in California...
...Meadows one afternoon last spring-a feat that only seven U. S. jockeys have ever accomplished. Others who had seen him break a leg during a race at Del Mar last summer, marveled at his ability to be out in front again after being dismounted for two months. A barrel-chested pee-wee (4 ft. 8 in.) who learned to ride on the Western "bush"' tracks (county fairs), still lives in a trailer and looks as clumsy as Ichabod Crane on a horse. Johnny Adams has an extraordinary flair for getting the best out of the cheapest plater...