Multi-Purpose Paradox
Until All Machines Use Similar Bearings Under Like Load Conditions, "All-Purpose" Greases Remain Impractical. Multi-Purpose Greases are Available, However, and When Common Sense Indicates Their Use They Can Save Time, Reduce Inventories, and Eliminate Confusion
Wax Against Water
Capable of Satisfying the Demanding Packaging Requirements of War, Plus Previously Unposed Problems of Protecting such Things as Frozen Foods, are the Waxes and Waxed Papers. Water Doesn't Penetrate Wax and Modern Waxes are Tough--Hence Give Efficient Protection
Fuel Oils have changed
Not so Dramatic as Some Petroleum Developments, but Holding a Vital Interest for Oil Heat Users, is the Current Transition to Better and Somewhat Different Cat-Cracked Fuel Oils. Efficient Heating Will Depend on Proper Adaptations of Present Burners to a New Oil Diet
By-Product Bonuses
Petroleum By-Products, Like Ordinary People Working Without Great Fanfare, Receive Scant Attention Because There are so Many of Them. But They do Their Jobs Well, and the Background of Many By-Products Hold Bright Stories of Careers Salvaged from Oil-Refinery Wastes
Petroleum Process Products
From about Two Percent of the Crude Oil Produced Comes a Myriad of Little-Known Materials that Aid--In Proportions Far Exceeding Their Quantity--In the Production of Nearly Everything We Use, Eat, or Wear, Emulsified Waxes and Textile Oils Have Major Importance, Wide Use
‘Alloyed’ Oils
No Longer Dependent on any Particular Crudes for Top Quality Engine Oils, Lubricant Manufacturers Can Now Refine Severely, then Build Oils to Specific Jobs. Chemical Additives are the Answer
Fuels Rated by Performance
Aimed at New Motoring Pleasure and Economy, Borderline Knock Tests in Petroleum Research Use Road-Performance as the True Criterion of Fuel Quality. Present Cars also Benefit, But Gasolines of Aviation Quality, Tailored to Automotive Needs, Call for Better Engine Design