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Almost any quality or gravity of crude oil may be used as a base for obtaining gasoline. Should petroleum resources be depleted, factories using the new method may effectively use coal as a base by simply installing a machine for grinding the coal into a powder and a contrivance for removing ashes...
...fuel, bald, reserved Physicist Goddard, 47, once utilized common black powder, found it lacked power, then developed a new fuel. One pound of his new propellant, an explosive mixture of liquid hydrogen and oxygen, is equivalent to 50 Ibs. of gun powder...
Swing High (Pathé) depends entirely upon a widespread conviction, the nurturing of which the motion picture industry appears to regard as its most sacred duty, that circus sawdust is a powder of romance. Here a trapeze artist in a traveling circus becomes united, after vicissitudes and theme songs, with the protagonist in a medicine show. A distinguished cast including Helen Twelvetrees, Chester Conklin, Ben Turpin and Stepin Fetchit are involved in the itinerant sentimentalities. The villain is the ringmaster and has a mustachio...
Roman Candles. Cardboard tubes are packed in alternate layers with slow-burning powder, quick-burning powder and pressed discs of quick-burning chemicals containing a coloring salt. When lighted the slow-burning powder spews, finally reaches the disc. When this takes fire it ignites the quick-burning powder which makes a mild explosion, expels the flaming disc...
...Indian cemetery of Yellow Jacket, Utah, Lloyd Cantsee and Truman Hatch, Piutes, dug up a superstition supposed to be dead and a squaw's body really dead. Of dead fingernails and toenails they made a powder to put in the drinking water of their enemies. Of the superstition that this potion would cause its quaffer a loathsome disease (diabetes mixed with scurvy) they had high hopes. Caught at their hex, they were brought last week by tribefellows before a court at Price, Utah. Their defense: "We were only having fun." Their sentence: one to five years in gaol...