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Calling All Cars: Opium Den

Calling All Cars · July 23, 1935 · 31 min · 4,682 words

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The copyrighted program created by the Rio Grande Oil Company. Often, please, calling all cars, attention all cars, broadcast 87. Be on a lookout for suspicious Chinese, following a narcotic raid in Chinatown, to cut any suspicious characters in hold for questioning.

That's all, the roles and clues. We have invited Mr. George A. Zamboni, a petroleum engineer and member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, To tell you tonight why you save money by using real-grandic cracked gasoline in your car, Mr. Zembride's automobile built during the last five years, high-speed engines, and ordinary gasoline won't work efficiently in these new motors.

Why, cut-price, uncracked gasoline thinks they are saving money, but they are wrong. Water can use only parts of the power and each drop of uncrack gasoline. The unburned portion either goes to waste or turns into damaging carbon or oozes down your cylinder walls to dilute crankcase oil.

Doesn't this dilution do any serious damage, Mr. Zamboni? I could say it does. If you put the finest oil into a motor and then run it with this cut-by uncrack gasoline for only a few hundred miles, your oil is so diluted, it is useless for lubrication.

Then you lose power. Carbon begins to choke your motor. Your engine has no protection from friction and the wire while you are recommendation, this is happening. Every car, built since 1930, could use nothing but cracked gasoline. High compression, high speed motors operate at full efficiency only on cracked gasoline. Cracking ensures that gasoline burns quickly, completely,

leaving no unburned parts to carbonize or delude oil. What do you think of the Rio Grande patented cracking process, Mr. Zamboni? Rio Grande has unquestionably the finest cracking plant in America. I can fit in your cracking process, the very latest and best development in petroleum refining, then you know why so many leading western cities

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