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...discover the exact influence of these materials on gasoline and to find a means of giving numerical values to specially treated fuels was the task of the committee. According to the announcement, the committee proceeded by selecting two chemicals, one knock-preventing (iso-octane), one knock-producing (normal heptane). Numerical rating was arrived at by noting the number of parts of non- knocking isooctane which must be added 1 to ten parts of heptane to duplicate exactly the fuel being rated. Thus, a fuel with a rating of 5 would be inordinately bad; fuel with a rating of 50, superlatively...
...Chaney's mother was Emma Kennedy, the daughter of a distinguished Coloradoan. She married a good-natured Irish barber who, like herself, was deaf & dumb. Lon, the second of four normal children, left school at the age of nine to take care of her. He could make his mother understand him by contorting his face into significant expressions. At 13 he went to work as a guide to tourists on Pike's Peak. Later he was carpet-layer, stage hand, vaudevillist. He married his singing and dancing partner; their son is a lawyer in Hollywood...
This process probably takes place in nerve fibres, causes them to look like tiny white eggs. When the process is reversed the "eggs" disband, the person awakens. This process is responsible for normal as well as drug-induced sleep...
...assume that the rate structure in this bill is perfect but I am convinced the disposal of the whole question is urgent . . . the bill gives protection to agriculture and to several industries. . . . With returning normal conditions our foreign trade will continue to expand...
...lived regularly. Occasionally he spent a night with his family in the suburbs. To the hotel room had gone many and many a caller in recent weeks-impossible to single out one character more suspicious than the other. Friends said he had been betting on horses more heavily than normal lately. Experts said it did not look like a gang murder, more like a private feud. But no one knew...