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Mixed [up] messages?
Forget truth in advertising and hyperbole, how about proof reading?
"Boron is factor . . . "?
My old cars saw more than their fair share of aquatic (deep puddle) operation, but for a moment, the message seemed to be that Boron could make any land-based vehicle perform like the Nautilus. Alas, not a single mention of Boron's rust preventative qualities. Maybe Richfield also marketed Turtle Wax and Simonize?
"New Boron fuels
may enable jets
like the B-58 to circle the world non-stop!" Wonder if Boron-laden jet fuel had anything to do with the aircraft's inverted position? Showing its best side to the city below? Indeed, as I read the text, it is not even clear that Boron is being used in the Hustler's fuel. "Could."
This 1910 photo is labeled "[Glenn] Curtiss in speed contest." Wonder if the Balloonist was giving Curtiss a head start? Imagine how history could have been different had Boron been involved.
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...GUSL445FQJ.jpg
Source characterizes this as "Aviation:Airplanes:Biplanes" and "Chariot Racing - California- Pasadena." If the date is right "1911 or 1912", Ben Hur's biplane climax was ahead of its time. Wonder how Boron might affect equines?
http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...RQAKNXXRMH.jpg
Most of us tend to think of Gasoline storage in large tanks. This undated image is of Wilmington warehouse filled with drums of av gas. First layer of fuel drums seems to be "topped" by a "floor" of wood planks.
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Photo shows part of the new $12,000,000 refinery of the General Petroleum Corp. at Torrance. The new plant is producing the sensational super 100-octane aviation gasoline for Uncle Sam's air forces. Photo dated: January 15, 1944.
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Vehicles better suited for refueling at Slauson and Sepulveda?
LA Attacks! Splashing up support for Army-Navy show at Coliseum, January 8, '44.
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Oct. 6, '43 (In front of Hall of Records?)
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B-58 Arrives at Los Angeles at end of Trophy Flight, Photograph, March 5, 1962
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http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/675.../m1/1/med_res/