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Standard had a patented product called Paraflow, which miraculously lowers the temperature at which oil ceases to flow. The original product was an I.G. synthetic lubricant, but it was a Standard engineer who had the wit to see in it the "pour point depressant" for which all U.S. oil companies had been searching for years...
...civilians who had fled from Bataan (where 20,000 had been an added charge on the troops) knew it could not be long before they were finished too. No gunners had ever been in finer positions than the Jap. From Bataan's heights he could pour fire night & day across two miles of water into Corregidor and see where every shell fell...
When April Fools' Day broke, the Americans and Filipinos had yielded advance posts, but ,the main line held. That night the enemy came back with the same noises and almost the same numbers. The Japanese pierced the defenders' left center and began to pour through. But a noise came up angrily to meet the noise: the defenders closed their line, pocketing many Japanese behind them. Later the Japanese tried to land from barges on the Manila Bay side of the peninsula, and came noisily once more against the defenders' right center...
...when sucked into a supercharger (TIME, Aug. 18), it often heats up to 450° F. upon compression, and must be cooled to between 30° and 100° F. before it is fed to the carburetors. The coolers used are simply air scoops which pour wind around small pipes carrying the hot, supercharged air. Intercoolers on early Flying Fortresses weighed 92 lb. for each of four engines. Airesearch has produced coolers weighing only 32 lb. each-giving each Fortress an extra 240 lb. of useful load...
...Author Tabouis realizes that those bad times were gay, uninhibited days when there was still an element of pour le sport in politics. "One old gentleman [Baron Christiany] made it a point at all social affairs which the President [Loubet] attended to throw rotten eggs at him" or bash in the Presidential topper with a cane. It was not long before Mme. Tabouis would see Premier Léon Blum's head bashed in by young Royalists...