457.    ---------------.[CHAKRAVARTY, K. M.]  Synthetic-Fuel Industry in India.  Sci. and Culture, vol. 4, 1939, pp. 573-581; Chem. Abs., vol. 33, 1939, p. 5153.

                  Bergius, Fischer-Tropsch process for hydrogenating coal, the preparation and use of alcohol motor fuels, compressed-fuel gases, and sewage-disposal gas, and their applications to motors are discussed with particular reference to Indian conditions. Of 103,000,000 gal. of gasoline consumed in 1937, about 15.4 million gal. was produced in India and 38.1 million gal. imported from Burma.  The erection of a plant like that at Billingham, England, is recommended as a means for protecting the motor-fuel supply both in peace and war.