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Updated: June 28, 2025
More than two hundred different products are made from petroleum, among the chief of which are kerosene, lubricating oil, benzine, gasoline, vaseline, and paraffin. Many of the great treasure fields of the world have been discovered by chance rather than careful search. The diamonds of the Deccan, India, were trodden under foot for ages before they were recognized as diamonds.
Then she poured out a little more benzine and fell to rubbing the place again. "What shall you say if he proposes to you, Bee?" Bee ironed out with much deliberation the blue chiffon hat strings that made her a joy to all beholders. "I haven't quite decided," she said thoughtfully; "I might say briskly, 'With much pleasure, my dear Mr.
This smell on me will go off in a few weeks. You know I wanted to try all the perfumery in the store, and after I had got about forty different extracts on my clothes, another boy that worked there he fixed up a bottle of benzine and assafety and brimstone, and a whole lot of other horrid stuff, and labeled it 'rose geranium, and I guess I just wallered in it. It is awful, aint it?
"Did you ever hear of anybody getting money out of Old Benzine unless they got it before the goods were shipped? If ever there was a steal-omaniac, he was it, sure!" With this, one of the boys tossed a few crumbs to the gold fish. The turtles, thinking he had made a threatening motion toward them, quietly ducked to the bottom of the pool. The white-capped cook took the turkey from before the fire.
Paper producers supplied the War Office with paper-made blankets. For copper, when the supply began to grow short, nickelled iron was quickly substituted. Sugar was employed to obtain the spirit which had to take the place of benzine.
If you've got the fur coat and the goggles on your cap, you can walk or ride on a transfer, and folks'll take it as a cinch that your bubble's back in the garage bein' fitted with a new set of hundred-dollar tires. Why, just the smell of benzine on a suit you've had out to the cleaners will give 'em the dream, if you throw your chest out right.
The rest was so smutchy that not a letter was legible. "Better go into partnership," said Dick; "you are not smart enough for an apprentice, but on account of your capital you might be worth something as a partner." Pete cleaned the tablet with half the turpentine and benzine in the bottle and began afresh. This time came out in watery lines: PETE DOWNS centreville, Illinois U. S.
That gas out there ain't odorless, like the Pittsburg gas, and so it's perfectly safe; but the smell isn't bad about as bad as the finest kind of benzine. Well, the first thing that strikes you when you come to Moffitt is the notion that there has been a good warm, growing rain, and the town's come up overnight. That's in the suburbs, the annexes, and additions.
When a man on the road can get a merchant to say he will look at his goods, he knows that the merchant wishes to buy from somebody in his line and he feels that he has ninety-nine chances in a hundred of selling him. "That afternoon Old Benzine came over and he was mean. He tore up the stuff and said it was too high priced, and everything of that kind.
I admit there is an epidemic of fires. But what makes you so positive that it is all the work of one man?" "I was coming to that. For one thing, he isn't like the usual firebug at all. Ordinarily they start their fires with excelsior and petroleum, or they smear the wood with paraffin or they use gasoline, benzine, or something of that sort. This fellow apparently scorns such crude methods.
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