Word: gal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rome Start. It was foggy last week at Old Orchard, Me., when Roger Q. Williams and his navigator, Lewis A. Yancey, took off for Rome in the Bellanca monoplane Pathfinder, their third start in six weeks. Heavily loaded (450 gal. of fuel), the plane barely missed an amusement pier, reached an altitude of 500 feet, soon disappeared. Townsfolk, watching the takeoff, noticed strange bell-shaped "trousers" over the Pathfinder's wheels. A mechanic explained: streamline aluminum cowling, sharp at the front, breaks the wind...
Following general advances in the price of crude oil. Standard Oil of Indiana and Sinclair Refining (subsidiary of Sinclair Consolidated) announced increases in the wholesale price of gasoline (½? to 1? a gal- lon on carload lots). Meanwhile production continued to ride boisterously in advance of previous figures and President Hoover himself was moved to call an oil-restriction conference which, meeting...
...power. It weighs nearly 3 Ib. per h.p., against the average 2 Ib. per h. p. of gasoline types. But it travels farther and more cheaply on a gallon of its fuel. For example, last week's 7-hour (actually 6 hr., 50 min.) astonishment flight required 54 gal. of oil, costing $4.68 and weighing 365 Ib. A gasoline radial would have required for the same trip 91 gal. of gas, costing $27.30 and weighing 546 Ib. On last week's short flight the gasoline engine and its fuel would have been slightly lighter than Packard...
...once rumored that Louise Dresser was the sister of Novelist Theodore Dreiser. Dreiser had a brother, Paul, who changed his name to Dresser and gained fame by writing songs ("On the Banks of the Wabash," "My Gal Sal"). Paul Dresser, not Theodore Dreiser, was the friend, not the brother, of Louise. He knew her at a time when he was selling candy on a train which ran through Indiana. Louise, nee Kerlin, came to the station to meet her father who was a conductor on the same train. Conductor Kerlin was killed in a railroad wreck; Louise brought...
Nevertheless, South Dakota has two Senators, equal in the eyes of the law. Last week the missing Senator appeared. He is William H. McMaster and he came bearing no gifts, singing none of the songs now so popular in the Black Hills about Cal and his gal being his pals. The Senator said that farmers were still determined on the passage of the McNary-Haugen bill or its equivalent; that the Republican tariff was not doing the western farmer any good; that it took more than one good year to alleviate farm distress. Most significant, he said that candidates...