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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Diesel. Near Utica, Mich., last week, Packard Motor Co. successfully tested the first Diesel type engine to be used in an aircraft, declared that the oil burning motor increased efficiency 25%, banished danger of fire from gasoline, eliminated electric ignition systems, carburetors, spark plugs, other nuisances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Performances | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...Spark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...West Point, last week, at the garage of the U. S. Military Academy there was a fire which destroyed the limousine of Major General W. R. Smith and other government property to the value of $60,000. The fire was started by a spark which sprang from a soldier's hobnailed boot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sep. 3, 1928 | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...know, I am one of the youngest deacons in our Church? I don't think there is any harm for a deacon to learn to love some one and I do hope you will allow that some one to be you." Nellie Wallace replied that there was a spark of love aglow in her heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 27, 1928 | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...revolver barked, the audience laughed, in the wings a girl screamed, her clothes afire. She, one Ellen Delmour, 21, "burleycue" chorine, was standing too close to the revolver whence came the report. A spark lit her flimsy dress. Her burns hurt, will not kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre Notes, Aug. 13, 1928 | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

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