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I'm involved in digitizing my hometown's newspaper, week by week, from 100 years ago. This past week I found a curious passage about "Liberty Fuel," a synthetic gasoline developed by an American army engineer, Edwin Weisgerber (link in comments). This a real thing? What happened?

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I'm involved in digitizing my hometown's newspaper, week by week, from 100 years ago. This past week I found a curious passage about "Liberty Fuel," a synthetic gasoline developed by an American army engineer, Edwin Weisgerber (link in comments). This a real thing? What happened?	180