Word: gal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lansing, Mich., state officials calculated, on returns from Michigan's new malt tax, that 109,000,000 gal. of beer were brewed last year in Michigan tubs and wash-boilers, enough to provide 174 bottles for every man, woman and child...
Automobiles 25% 25% 10% Beans (lbs.) ½? 3½? ½? Bibles 15% 15% 15% Blackstrap (gal.) 1/6? .03? .03? Boots and Shoes Free 20% 20% Butter (lb.) 8? 14? 14? Cattle (lb.) 2? 2½? 2½? Cement (cwt.) Free 8? 8? Corn (bush.) 15? 25? 25? Corsets 75% 75% 75% Cream (gal.) 20? 48? 56.6? Diamonds (cut) 20% 20% 10% Diamonds (uncut) 10% 10% Free Dolls 7% 90% 70% Dried Apricots (lb.) ½? 2? 6? Dried Cherries (lb.) Free 2? 6? Eggs (doz.) 8? 10? 10? Flaxseed (bush.) 40? 63? 56? Glassware (toilet) Free 50% 82% Gloves...
Facts of the record which railroad men scrutinized: coal consumption, 975 tons; water consumption, 1,500,000 gal.; gross ton mileage, 13,780,749; cars hauled, 555; average day's run, 320 mi. On its last run into Kansas City, No. 4113, pulling perishable freight, clipped 3½ hours off its running schedule. Built by Baldwin Locomotive Co. in 1923, No. 4113 was a 2-8-4 type (two pilot wheels, eight drivers, four trailers) equipped with a Baker valve gear, a Chicago K45 lubricator, a radial stay type firebox. With a total heating and superheating surface...
...Name the use of the following: Gal vanometer, vernier, oscillograph, pantograph, micrometer, pyrometer...
Endurance Success. Cleveland's endurance flyers, Byron K. Newcomb and Roy L. Mitchell (TIME, July 8), kept their Stinson-Detroiter-Whirlwind flying far into last week, made a new record- 174 hr. 59 sec. They made 24 refueling contacts, used 1,903 gal. of gasoline, 87 of oil. Only their own exhaustion brought them down. Motor and plane were in serviceable condition until joy-crazy Clevelanders ripped at them for souvenirs. Also joyous, Otto I. Liesy, vice-president of Stewart Aircraft Co., who financed the project, kissed the flyers-both hard-boiled Army men. Popular son-of-a-brewer...