Word: gal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Babylon, excavations have proceeded as never before. British and University of Pennsylvania diggers continued turning up the wonders of Ur of the Chaldees. Their finding of the great ziggurat or tower, the temple of the moon god and the temple of Nin-Gal, wife of the moon god, was reported in TIME, March...
...four-wheelers would be required legally to carry a load of merchandise that 100 7-ton six-wheelers could handle. The 100 six-wheelers, weighing many tons less than the 180 four-wheelers, would pound up the roads less. They would burn about 1,100 gal. less of gasoline per 100 miles. They would require 80 less wageearning drivers, to say nothing of costing less at the outset...
Next year there will be a new lake in the state of Alabama. Engineers are now constructing giant harness for the Tallapoosa River which, when reined in, will be called Cherokee Bluffs Lake, a body impounding 530,000,000,000 gal. of water and having a 700-mile shore line. The bits and bridles to govern so much potential power were told about last week by the General Electric Co. at Schenectady, N. Y.: three electric generators, each driven by a 45,000-h.p. waterwheel turbine. Alabama industry will point proudly to the largest power units in the South...
...residuum. The product: a hydrogen and carbon combination containing no carbon monoxide because manufactured at low temperatures. The product's qualities : non-asphyxiating because void of carbon monoxide ; content of 1,600 British thermal (heat) units as against 525 to 585 units in most illuminating gases. From 7 gal. of refinery residuum are produced 1,000 cu. ft. of the new gas and a by-product of 1½ gal. of gasoline high in ethylene content (40% to 50%). The inventor: one Dr. O. U. Bean, inventor also of the Bunsen furnace...
...ziggurat or tower. The first works uncovered date from about 600 B. C.; in the courtyard of a temple of the Moon God was found a building believed to have been used as a sort of convent schoolroom and museum by the priestesses. Another building, a temple to Nin-Gal, wife of the Moon God, has also been uncovered in a corner of the compound. Some of the objects found dated from 2,500 B.C.; going down to the lower foundations, the excavators found older and older masonry, some of primitive unbaked bricks that may have been laid as early...