Word: gal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around his wrinkled neck and a toothpick poised thoughtfully in the right-hand corner of his mouth, nodded encouragingly. The crowd, native to that end of Virginia which is just across the Cumberland Mountains from Kentucky, solemnly waited to see what the "Gov'ment" would do to a gal who stayed out late and killed her pappy...
...duty on cattle, a reduction limited however to 155,799 heavy beef cattle, 51,933 calves less than 175 lb. each, and 20,000 dairy cattle per year; a 20% to 40% cut for 750,000 bu. a year of seed potatoes; 43% off for 1,500,000 gal. a year of cream; half off on halibut; $2.50 instead of $5 per gallon on whiskey aged four years or more in the wood; half off on lumber with an annual limitation to 250,000,000 board feet on Douglas fir and western hemlock. In addition, the U. S. agreed...
...requested by the League (TIME, Sept. 30). With patriotism boiling, General Giuseppe Garibaldi, grandson of Italy's "Liberator" and for years a prominent antiFascist, abruptly said in Manhattan last week that he had switched to Mussolini, was now for the war. With gasoline up from 85? per gal. to $1.10 last week, Italy's mincing-mannered Crown Prince Umberto combined patriotism with the renowned thrift of his Royal Family by announcing that he and the Crown Princess will hereafter use not more than two of their motor cars. An English governess who has cared for any number...
...hexane or benzene. The oil and the solvent are filtered off. The solvent is recovered from the oil by distillation; from the mash by steaming under pressure. Last week's jury of scientists looked along this line of operations for vulnerable spots. They found that two 4,000-gal. tanks of hexane had not exploded. Neither had the two 50,000-gal. oil storage tanks, nor the stills, nor the pressure apparatus. The blast, in fact, seemed to have originated in the flaking room, might have been due to a dust explosion...
...needs. Before Dec. 31, 1937 all Italian motor vehicles must be converted to burn substitute fuels, such as coal gas distilled en route from charcoal by the Fiat system. Two days after the Cabinet meeting Italian motorists found that the price of gasoline had doubled to 87? per gal. Only cheerful sound from the Cabinet board was an announcement that "particularly abundant wheat and rice" crops ensure Italians plenty to eat this winter. Fearing possible blockades, Italian Gorgonzola shippers wired British customers last week to order all their supplies for the next few months in advance...