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Nor is the danger of fire totally eliminated with the use of helium; the gas-tanks and the fuel system generally are still vulnerable.

From Time Magazine Archive

The railroad operatives were busy with lanterns about the train, tapping wheels, filling the ice-boxes and gas-tanks, and switching cars.

From Together by Herrick, Robert

They built the gas-tanks and laid the mains.

From The Titan by Dreiser, Theodore

The truck, which had probably conveyed the gas-tanks from the rendezvous where they had been collected, was there now to convey to some dark wharf what of the treasure could be seized.

From The Treasure-Train by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)

Curtiss and Brookins and Hoxsey have all made longer flights than mine, in this country alone, and they're aviators I'm not worthy to fill the gas-tanks of....

From The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life by Lewis, Sinclair